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Three days before this video was taken Swastikas had been painted on the building.
of the Jewish community center. I zoomed in to see what remained.
Where we are now is the Jewish community center today.
This was the Tarbum (sp) gymnazium (high school).
The school ran in Hebrew.
The academic level was very high.
I must tell you that they really wanted the kids to only speak Hebrew
And if a teacher encountered students on the street speaking Yiddish or Polish
They would have to pay money to an organization that bought up land in Israel.
So whoever spoke Yiddish in the Hebrew school... But all the children spoke Yiddish of course.
Yiddish was our language.
I also want to tell you that this street that leads from the museum we went to
used to be called port street. All the buses left here and went directly to the river port.
There was a port there for ships to go on the river.
Now the street is divided into two different names.
But in Vilne, as I told you as we were walking, the street that's called Didžioji in Lithuanian, Wielka in Polish
was called the "breyte gas" (wide street) by the Jews.
Yesterday I read something...Understand that this was simply called "di breyte gas"
Man's voice: This was the "breyte gas?"
Fania: No, this is "kortove", the "breyte gas" is near where we were in the Ghetto, Didžioji in Lithuanian.
"breyte gas"/wide street is now Didžioji.
Man's voice: Didžioji is the same as German street (daytshishe gas)
No, it's near German street (daytshe and dizhour sound similar).