Edith Kozlowski - August 19, 2010
Early Childhood
Um, tell me a little bit about your childhood in Radom? How big was your family?
Uh, we were four girls. I was the oldest, we were three years apart.
Ok. [pause] Your mother and your father?
Yeah, my mother and my father were at a grocery store.
At a grocery store in Radom?
Yeah, and I loved people in business, when I was little I was helping them out.
Mm-hm.
[pause] When I went to school, ok.
Where did you go to school at? Was it a Jewish school, or was it a secular school?
No, regular elementary.
Mm-hm.
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Husband: ???
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The name of the school?
Was ???. It was quite a walk, you know.
How far of a walk was it?
Daughter: He's taping you've gotta talk louder Ma.
It's ok--it'll pick it--its fine.
Uh, I would say more than a mile, yeah more than a mile. By us it was far then. Here it's not. [laughs]
[laughs] Um, tell me a little bit about school did you have a lot of friends, Polish friends?
No Jewish.
Jewish friends.
I lived in a Jewish neighborhood.
Ok.
Yeah, a lot of Jewish friends, yes.
A lot of Jewish friends.
Um, [pause] and when I was about nine, and my grandparents married off the youngest daughter they were very lonely.
Mm-hm.
So they ask my parents, if I can stay with them for a bit.
With your grandparents?
Mm-hm. Then I changed schools too.
Did ...
I went to ???. JK: Ok.
I went there for a couple years; I stayed with my grandparents.
In a different part of the city or in the same neighborhood?
In--no--at least a mile away.
At least a mile away.
At least a mile away. Other direction from school.
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