Luba Elbaum - January 20, 1982
Learning a Trade in Lublin
Okay, and then when you went to Lublin, how far did you go in school there?
No, I want to learn something, when I went to Lublin. I just learn. I just have private, you know, private to learn.
I see, okay.
Private. And then I want to be--I want to learn how to sew, how to sew clothes, I mean, how to make the uh, how you call to sew clothes--sewing clothes. Sewing, like learn how to sew. Like...
To sell, okay. What were you going to do when you sell clothes, were you going to--what were you thinking about traveling around, or...
No, no. I want to learn how to sew clothes, I mean, to be like making clothes.
Oh, to sew.
Yeah, making.
To sew clothes, okay.
Yeah.
Okay. And that's what you wanted to do then?
Yeah.
After school?
And I used to go in the morning--learn. So first thing you came in, you have to learn how to, how to use a, you know like a...
A machine?
Yeah, a machine.
A sewing machine.
A sewing machine...
Uh-huh.
...because the sewing was by--just you have to turn with the...
With the foot.
...the foot and learn how to sew. First you have to, first you have to know how to, I mean, how to sew--you have to learn how to sew everything. I mean, to sew and--like we went--like when you learn how to sew, there'll be somebody--you have something to, you know, make something. You have to take 'em home. Like take here, you, you have a dress and the dress was finished. And if I will, and I'm learning for you. So, you know, you take the dress and take him home. So you have--I mean, they give you like forty, like fifty cents, I mean like here the same thing...
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