Life Before the Ghetto

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“I think we were very well off, upper-middle class.” 

“We had a maid in the house, and as far as I recall we all had a very happy childhood. In the summertime we would stay in a house in the resort area outside of Warsaw; we would go for the Summer to stay. It was a very loving family and time I recall.”  

“I went to Polish school, and I had very bad memories about that. It was always the fear; I was always frightened. Polish kids would always beat me up and harass me for being Jewish.” 

“My mother was very religious, very strict Orthodox. She made our house kosher, but my father was a butcher who wasn’t kosher and catered to the Poles and had his stores open on the Sabbath.” 

“I recall these times being good, we were a good family, life was good.”