Tag #120979 - Interview #102368 (Solomon Meir)

After I finished the 4 grades of primary school, in 1945, my father enlisted me at the Commercial High School in Botosani, where I graduated only 2 grades because a monetary reform was implemented [4] and my father complained that he won’t have the money to pay the schooling tax – the education reform hadn’t been introduced yet [5] and you had to pay a tax to go to school –, and I entered a trade in 1947, I think. He enlisted me at a school for professions run with French funds, it was called ORT [6] – Organisateur Reconstruction de Travaille, meaning Jewish Workforce Reconstruction – active around the world, not only in Romania, as this ORT school had branches in many countries. I studied there for 3 years. I graduated in 1950 and obtained the qualification of lathe operator.