Re: [Cz-L] School questions

Hi all,
>From age 5 I attended Meisler Schule. That year I went to a Bastel-Klasse
(handiwork with plasticine and straw). I think Irene's mother, related to
Meislers, was my teacher there. Then from age 6 to 10 I went to the same
elementary school, another building across the yard. It was a mixed school,
boys and girls. We were taught Rumanian, because they had to, but, we
learned German, poetry, Latin and Gothic writing and once a
week Jewish religious classes The teacher, I remember, was a man,
we learned neither Hebrew nor prayers but just stories from the Bible. (As
I wrote before, life sometimes closes circles, I, my family and some
friends, spent our Ghetto stay in that building only times had changed. No
more classrooms, no more fun, the family rooms , which of course I
had never seen before, were now bedrooms, floor mattresses accommodating
lots of people) We learned and were tested in Rumanian reading, writing,
arithmetic and, what we were never tested in except internal studies tests
were German which, I and most of us, enjoyed most.

Age 10 Liceul (lyceum) Carmen Silva, girls only (in answer to David's
question, it was on the right hand side of Siebenbuergerstr. corner Neue
Welt Gasse? am not certain whether the right hand corner still carried that
name,) on the left hand, across the street, was Liceul Mihai Eminescu, boys
only - prim and proper-. I can't say I met anyone else than Jewish girls
and boys but there must have been some somewhere!! We studied many subjects
most seriously. Math. Biology, Latin, French, Rumanian poetry and
literature, world (not only Rumanian) history, music, calligraphy!!! we
were taught proper writing!! gymnastics and other subjects. It was frontal
teaching, absolute silence, standing when the teacher opened the door and
left, RESPECT! very strict. We had books, (Schmier Hefte) thick
papered re-cycled paper in which every word the teacher uttered was
scribbled into and copied out properly at home. Homework galore and
LEARNING BY HEART!!!! pages of it, (it does train memory and it does work
till today) very little time left to live but, somehow we did, we went ice
skating in winter and I had Maccabi Gymnastics and Volley-ball all year
round and basket-ball in the summer. The days weren't longer than they are
today but we managed it all, somehow.

Age 11 Notre Dame de Sion, I had to have perfect French as my step-brother
was a GP in Paris an I was supposed to join him and study there (Denke
anders denn erstens kommt es ander und zweitens als Du denkst) Men plan God
decides, so in 1939 when I returned for a second year war broke out and I
was called home to Czernowitz, see part of my life story).
Sepember 1939 I went to Hoffman Gymnasium (I know nothing about Hoffman nor
why the one was called Lyceum and the other Gymansium, it might come from
the Greek where Plato taught in a Lyceum, Gymnasium was body building, as
far as I know, but in Cz. both were high schools. We were taught the same
subject in all three high schools, but now my French was far superior, In
the Notre Dame we did not study Latin, the catching up was hard.
1940 Russian occupation. I refused to learn Russian as did most of my
friends and we went to Moldavsk scoala where we learn Rumanian with
Cyrillic letters, no Latin, but German Literature??!! why can't say. We had
a great Prof. who came from Germany/Jew of course to the "Russian
Paradise", that was the greatest joy. Of course we had a sweet Russian
teacher who taught Russian 1 hour every day. The school was two house away
from the Russische Gasse (a side street) I think it was a boy's school
before. To my delight, being 14 it was a mixed school, the first time in my
"adult" life!!! I enjoyed it.
That was the last time I sat on a school bench, autodidact with spontaneous
external studies, and my teacher's degree in English.
A long answer to your question but I might have been of help.
Good Luck with your project, am looking forward to reading it.
Shabbat Shalom, anny

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>wrote:

> This is the same school which in May 1944 became the Yiddish school.
> Arthur Rindner and I were both in first grade and in second grade
> in this school in 1944 - 1945.
> The interior of the school has not changed since then, a year and a half
> ago
> we were able to visit our classroom.
>
> Mimi

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