Bella Camhi - November 18, 1999
Childhood Memories
You have no uh, memories--fond memories of your house when you were a child.
No, I sure don't want to even go back. No. There was no house.
Of the barrack, it was a barrack.
It was no house. I mean, we had to go to outside bathroom. So my dad invented a gas uh, tank you know, how the ??? come in the petroleum.
Yeah.
Those square thing.
Yeah.
And put a faucet in there so we carried the water and we have this, so we were able to wash our face.
A sink.
Uh, well, no, not a sink. A sink you put a ??? on there, you know.
Yeah.
No, a faucet.
Uh-huh.
little faucet that would run, you know. The water's out, you fill it up again. So is not very good memories.
Just your mother.
Well, she was a pretty lady, you know. And uh, she suffered a lot.
Holidays?
Oh holidays they were very important to them. Oh yeah, I mean, we, we didn't go man and woman, they were separate.
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