Tag #141162 - Interview #78558 (Erika Izsak)

Grandma transferred the shoe store to a trustworthy shoemaker who worked there [see Strohmann system] [20] already at the beginning of the German occupation, before they took the shops of the Jews with an order. I don’t know the details, but I know that they helped in the following months, his wife often came and brought all kinds of food and items we needed in the household. Grandma once asked her, she gave her money, of course, to bring us some cookies from the cake-shop near by, because Jews couldn’t go there anymore. The woman quietly remarked that even though she could always go in, she never had enough money to buy something for her children.