There was no other religion or nation in all my genealogy. I belong to the Jewish category, as does my wife. All my wife's relatives were deported to Auschwitz because they stayed in Hungary. I was born in Arad, where I also lived before 1944. I attended the Jewish Elementary School. It was a Jewish school, we were not allowed to attend any Romanian schools; only the Jewish ones. Jews were also excluded from college and high school. So I could only attend Jewish schools. Many of our educators were students; they were once expelled from the faculty, and later they became teachers at the Jewish Elementary School.
I enrolled in school in 1942. My father was in a labour camp in Romania and was not deported. So, a labour camp. Antonescu's regime-this was Antonescu's merit-did not admit the holocaust or the deportation to any other place than the labour camps in Cuvin, near Arad. That is where my father was from; he spent four years in a labour camp.
All my family’s belongings were nationalised; they weren’t yet given back to us because they were renationalised by the communists. We owned a beautiful house in Arad, and we are currently in court over it, since it was nationalised twice, first in 1941 and then again in 1950. They gave it back to us in 1945, and they took it away from us in 1950. So, as they say: be it legionnaires, be it Nazis, or communists, they are all the same. Then I graduated from the "Moise Nicoară" Romanian high school in Arad and the Faculty of Medicine in Cluj. I am retired now, but I am still working as a doctor at the county polyclinic. That’s what I can tell you.
