Regina Cohen - April 18, 1982
Education after the War
Where did you get money from? Where did people get the money to pay these...
I did—wait a minute, did we get some, some—any kind of cash? No. Uh, we had some money from home, from Chust...
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Yes, and we brought it with us, whatever there was. I, personally, had no money. I was taking—studying German and English with this uh, lady and I would give her some food supply from my own.
Mm-hm.
N...n...nothing, you know, some uh, cereals, some beans, some potatoes, or whatever. I needed to know that I'll be able to, to get out in the world and just be able to speak to somebody. I actually learned to read and to write. I didn't speak the language too well because you have to translate from a written to a conversation, which is quite hard to do.
That's right.
But um, that's—and then uh, the people really didn't have money. The only thing they had is—of course, there was black market going on too. Don't ask me again, I'm not involved there. I have—my ties on those deals didn't—I sort of pushed those times through as if uh, make those years go away because I'm looking forward to something else and I don't want to stay there, uh...
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