Well, my father, first of all, he was put in charge,
he got a job as the principal of an ORT School,
the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training.
And there, he set up classes for the remnant,
the immigrants who came out of these shtetls and the camps and the...
and the concentration camps and so on,
with no marketable skills, and he set up electrical workshops.
There was knitting, you know, machine knitting,
there was plumbing, carpentry, all of these trades. He got teachers.
But on the side, he decided that his kid needed to go to school,
and there was no school.
So, he tried to gather a group of people
in the community together to start a school.
And it was interesting that a lot of the people did not want to start a school.
They felt they were just in transit,
they weren’t going to invest any of their time and energy
into starting a school, but for my parents a school was important.
They had a child who was growing up without any learning.
So they, he... you know, by the force of his will
and his organizing ability got a school started.
They got desks from the local German schools.
They got paper and pencils and blackboards
and they hired, you know, they got a bunch of,
they had Jewish teachers there, and I remember starting school there.
And by the time I came to Canada, I was well ahead of the kids here
because I went to school at Eggenfelden.