Tag #136215 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

I attended a Romanian middle school. There was no independent Jewish school in Des. There was a school for boys and one for girls, with well-trained teachers. In the school they didn’t make us feel different because we were Jewish, although there were many Jews in the school. I didn’t feel I was despised or treated like an alien. My favorite subject was mathematics, and I was only interested in what was related to mathematics: physics, chemistry and logic. We used to go to the theater, concerts and movies with the school. On several occasions they took us to the Romanian theater in Kolozsvar. The first opera I saw was Carmen. I was 14 then. I couldn’t understand a word they sang, but it was all new to me and I liked it.