I attended the Jewish gymnasium. We were taught Hebrew. I belonged to a Zionist organization
as a youth organization was Ha-No'ar ha-Ziyyoni, and the organization provided us with a very fine
Jewish, nationalistic, upbringing education. We dreamt of Palestine at one time be a
homeland for Jews. We encouraged one another to speak and learn Hebrew as much as we could.
The Hebrew and the Jewish song was very popular among us youngsters, and my schoolmates,
my friends. I feel that I had a very happy childhood, and this was all interrupted and
broken. All the dreams were shattered on September the 1st when the German army marched into Będzin.