In the 5th grade of high school, five more Jewish classmates joined us, girls who had completed the first four grades at the Jewish High School. We became friends, and we spent practically every Sunday afternoon together. So there we were—ten fifth-grade Jewish girls. Most of the Romanian female classmates with whom we had become friends distanced themselves as the anti-Semitic movement gained ground. They didn't want to interact with us in almost any way outside school. They started to go out with the students from the Polytechnic, who were influenced by the Legionary Movement. Between the two wars, they accepted no Jew as a student at the Polytechnic of Timișoara. At the Timișoara Polytechnic, no Jew was allowed to enrol as a student between the two world wars. In the 1930s, a young Jew from Timișoara or Banat who wanted to become an engineer would go to study in Czechoslovakia, in Brno or Prague, at a German-speaking university, in France or Germany.
