Tag #136776 - Interview #78481 (Samuel Izsak)

I remember one anti-Semitic incident that happened to me in Vasarhely. We were coming home from school via the Meszaros Koz. Everyone who was familiar with Vasarhely knew that the Jewish pupils were coming home from Iskola [School] Street via the Meszaros Koz because the Jewish elementary school was on Iskola Street, not far from the synagogue. When we arrived at the square – we were three or four – some csiszliks surrounded us. People called apprentices csiszliks. They were shoe-maker apprentices, they carried boots over their shoulders. They surrounded us and began shouting, ‘Hep, hep, hep’. [Samuel said they only shouted this way when they wanted to make fun of Jews.] Otherwise they didn’t hurt us, just surrounded us and made fun of us. We didn’t run away, we continued to walk quietly.