Tag #125630 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

I met my husband Shemuel Yosif Moshe [1922 – 1996] at that time. He was the son of one of the interned families that rented a room in the house opposite us. I often tried to peep into their little room through the windows. I could see a book on the table: ‘The Trade Union Movements in the World’ and I was very impressed because I didn’t know anything about these trade union movements. How was that possible? We, the young Jewish people, didn’t stop studying with the end of school, we were always curious about things. There wasn’t a single book by [Louis] Bromfield or [John] Galsworthy that we hadn’t read. And if somebody mentioned ‘The Forsyte Saga’ and I hadn’t read it, I would go to the library and do my best to find it and read it. We couldn’t afford to be lagging behind. There has always been this desire in the young Jewish people to succeed, to be first. Because that was our slogan: ‘you have to be a head taller in order to break through. If you are as good as the others, you won’t succeed, you have to be better.