RE: [Cz-L] School questions

 Dear Anny,

Thank you for your interesting schools-story !

Where was the Notre Dame school? In Bucharest? In Paris?

The teachers there were nuns?

Tell us more. You do it so well.

Best wishes,

Irene

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Subject: 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

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