Tag #144407 - Interview #78227 (frieda stoyanovskaya)

Thanks to mamma, my sister and I could study. We went to school. I went to a Russian school and Ida went to a Ukrainian school for some reason. There were quite a few Jewish children and teachers in my school. It seems they were all living in poverty. However, I remember few very rich girls in our school. They must have lived in Kiev, when we came there to escape from the pogroms. I remember that these girls were merry, not hungry, and well dressed. This made them very different from us. I also remember that they left the country in 1922, 1923 and 1924 with their parents. They went somewhere to Western Europe. And the teachers that had taught in the former high schools for noble children in Kiev lived in hunger and poverty. I remember the teacher of Russian literature and language that had a big influence on me and my personality. Looking at her I wanted to become a teacher, and maybe her example determined my choice to follow that profession.

In 1924 I finished school.