Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Larry Wayne - 2005

Katzenelson Gymnasium

Was it Katzenelson?

Katzenelson. How'd you know? That's right. Yit...Yitzhak Katzenelson's Gymnasium.

Wow, that's, it's very famous.

Yeah, well Katzenelson himself was a very famous person.

And when you went to Katzenelson school, did you learn non-Jewish

Yes. I had a, a...

...history?

I took about--I had to take about four languages, which uh, at one time I was speaking pretty fluently. And one of them was English, as a matter of fact. English, German, Polish and, and Hebrew it was automatically.

Yeah, the Zionist...

I took up what they call a humanistic studies, which were philology, it's actually languages, and philosophy.


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