Teenage Years
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Title
Teenage Years
Subject
Holocaust Survivors
Creator
Andre Kessler
Curatescape Story Item Type Metadata
Subtitle
Getting Along in America
Lede
"I was on my own until it was time to go to school."
Story
"We had a very small apartment in the section of New York called Sunnyside in Queens. Where [my mother] worked, the textile company was in Manhattan, so she would leave the house at 7 or 7:15 in the morning, catch the subway which was a block and a half away. She would come home at 5:30 or 6 o’clock at night. I was on my own until it was time to go to school. The neighborhood we lived in was not the very best... I was one of those kids that when I felt like going to school I did. When I didn’t feel like going to school I didn’t.
When the letters started to come telling my mother I was truant, at first I explained to her that they were letters of commendation about how well I was learning English. I got away with that until she started to learn English."
When the letters started to come telling my mother I was truant, at first I explained to her that they were letters of commendation about how well I was learning English. I got away with that until she started to learn English."
Factoid
1951-1958
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