Luba Elbaum - January 20, 1982
Religion and Education
I see. Okay. Uh, were there--do you remember many synagogues where you lived?
Mm, we just had a small synagogue, not a big synagogue. A small. We--every Saturday we went to daven. Every Saturday. I go every Saturday.
What about school?
Was a school too, just the five--to five classes--five ses...classes. When somebody want to go far to school, we had to go to Lublin.
And if uh, so you went, you went to the small school then, yes?
I just went to the small school. When I grew up I want to become--how call in English--I want to learn--I want to become a--in Polish, I forgot it in English. I want to go learn something, so I went to the big city.
Mm-hm.
Somebody went to the big city to go to school. And when I was age, I went to my, my--was my mother's brother, my mother's brother. And I was staying there and I was going to learn sewing.
Sewing?
Sewing. I want to learn how to sew.
Okay. Oh sell.
Sewing, I mean. Now how you call sewing, I mean? How to, how to sew. I mean, does it mean how to sew, I mean like in a business, you sew.
Yeah, to sell, right, okay. Uh, what were your family's religious affiliations, were they...
Jewish. Real religious orthodox.
Okay, Orthodox Jewish.
Yeah.
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