Regina Cohen - April 18, 1982
Education
What kind of school did you go to?
I went to the um, it's a Hebrew school. It um, what do you call it here, uh.
Like a cheder?
No uh, like a...
Private school?
...Hillel, private Hebrew school, which taught all the requirements. Until, okay, 'til 19--the age, I was 193...in 1938 um, the beginning of '39 there was--World War II broke out. And my--was mobilization. My father was taken into the military. And from there on things were just going downhill for all the Jews.
Mm-hm.
Including schooling for children, which had to be done as sort of uh, half days here and in secret rather than--public school was not permitted for a Jewish child.
Well, before 1939 you went to a public school?
No, it was private.
And you went all day?
All day. It's like the Hillel day school.
Did you have a half a day of Hebrew and a half day of your other subjects?
No, we had all the subjects, a full day, one hour of Hebrew.
Oh I see. Was it a Czech speaking school?
It was a Czech until uh, Hungary took it over.
In 1939.
Right and then we had to switch to Hungarian and exclude the Czech totally.
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