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Nachman, do you want to go over there?
Just a second. We're filming.
Go ahead. -What did you want to say?
There was a row of shops here.
From this street, there were:
Sharvit, a grocery store.
Then Alte Zelcer.
Heshin.
She sold sponge cake. I forgot her name.
Alte Zelcer's mother.
Amar was here.
The green grocer was here.
A green grocer in this little shop.
Amar was here.
Here.
This was a butcher shop.
This was a butcher shop, this was Mevorach Yona's grocery store.
There were several shops.
One was a shoe salesman.
It's changed.
The Cardo ruined all the shops.
Where did your family shop?
Who? -Where did your family shop?
Here, across from the Hurva.
Alte Zelcer.
At the end there were two spinsters.
They never married.
Their brother never married either.
They had a grocery store.
My mother wanted to shop there too.
Once here, once there.
I have to ask...
I have to ask again. -Go ahead.
I'm asking.
I have to ask again.
Where did your family shop?
I told you, Alte Zelcer.
A full sentence please.
Say: "We shopped at..." -Across from the Hurva.
Wait, Nachman. We need full answers.
Please say: "We shopped at..." Okay?
Where did your family shop?
Across from the Hurva, at Alte Zelcer.
At the end, on the right, two spinsters had a grocery store.
I forgot their names.
63 years...
We shopped at their store too.
We were friends. We couldn't shop in only one place.
That's how it goes, but all this...
This was Amar's grocery store.
The police station was here, across from the stairs.
There were many shops.
The entrance to the police station was here.
The building was inside.
Across from the...
Behind the police station
Pinhas Mizrachi had a grocery store.
And the Meimran brothers, with their old father.
And...
Then there was Masoud, Vaknin.
He also had a grocery store.
On the right, there were lots of shops.
There was a shop here where you could buy nuts.
This guy named Yussef.
And another guy, what was his name...
Yes...
I can't remember. There was another grocery store here.
Here too.
After this grocery store there was a Christian woman
who sold cigarettes and all kinds of things.
Then we went to this bakery.
During the siege
they baked matzos at the bakery.
My father worked there. Many people did.
Then... On this side...
Wait. This is...
Beit El, right? Yes, Beit El Street.
There was a shop on the corner, two barbers.
Two barbershops.
One was Shlomo Mufdali,
the other was...
An old man, I don't remember his name.
He came to my house to cut hair.
This was Beit El.
Right here there was a candy store.
Then there was Kaden, a widow who sold falafel.
You went down the stairs and ate. It was like a little restaurant.
There were shops one after the other.
Muniel, stationery. Then there was a gate...
to get to... but it was always closed.
To enter the four synagogues of Yohanan Ben Zakai.
Then there was Donna, she sold wine and cheese.
Then Ester Cohen.
Moshe Cohen, a grocery store.
Then there was a man who sold coffee,
I don't remember his name.
Then there was Avraham who sold falafel.
What else was on this street?
On this street
there was a club.
Down below there was a man who made shtreimlach,
the clothes for Sabbath. With fur.
And there...
there was a club.
We didn't want to go. It was mixed. It wasn't for us.
What do you mean, a club?
Every night.
Girls and boys, they played, I don't know what.
That was the club.
Did you go there? -Never. No.
Why not? -It was mixed.
Besides... Usually the Sephardim went there.
There was a woman, Shushana Kobi.
Shushana Avidan. She lived on Palmach Street.
She went to that club a lot.
And here... I told you,
on this side there was a printer, Hamburger.
His father was a rabbi. Hamburger too.
He tended to the dead. He was in burial society.
He opened a printing press, there were a few shops that were closed.
Then there was Assouline. Before the...
What's it called? -What? -This roofing? -The police?
The roofing. -The roofing... I don't know.
Cantara. -Cantana? -Cantara.
Cantara, it has three names.
Cantara...
I don't remember. Cantara... It's well known. -The arches?
An archway. -What was that?
There was a large warehouse
for nuts on the right that the Arabs brought.
With their carts.
I argued with someone.
"Tell me, was there a step on Ha-Yehudim Street?"
"No." "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure there was no step."
I told him there was a step for sure.
How do you know? I said:
The nut factory was under the Cantara.
Before they went up to the Cantara there was a step,
they were always running.
Once someone stepped on my foot. The Arabs don't care...
They don't care about people... They ran.
But their carts turned over on the step with all the nuts.
So they slowed down.
I remember there was a step.
Shimon Assouline was before that, on the right.
I think his son Gedaliya lives in Ramot.
I gave him a picture once, I never got it back.
A part of their shop was in the picture. -Let's take a look.
It was like this...
Shimon Assouline's grocery store was here.
The bakery was here. You went down steps.
Everyone brought their sabbath stew here,
from Thursday to Sabbath, it cooked nicely.
Everyone came to get their sabbath stew on Sabbath.
Everyone knew their own pot.
One man told me
that once they went to get their sabbath stew,
there was another pot, it was full...
They ran with carts like that...
It was full of sand. -In the pot?
Tell me again what happened.
They took the pot and replaced it with a pot of sand.
Who did? -Who knows.
He didn't have sabbath stew for Sabbath.
It happens. I told them. It's public property.
Everyone came, left their pot.
He got paid a little something on Friday.
I don't know why they did that.
We had sabbath stew too.
But we made it at home on a kerosene lamp.
Did your family bring the pots or not?
There were steps leading up.
This man, Gedaliya,
he rented out rooms,
and the Mishali family from the Old City lived here.
And here this man made kusbe.
Do you know what kusbe is?
Goat food.
They take the refuse from the sesame tahini.
and there was a hollow stone.
The Arab would go in.
No shoes, no socks,
he went like this, it became brown, this kusbe.
We asked him for some. It was delicious.
Goat food.
We took it to the heder.
A bit at a time, for the flavor.
That's the kusbe.
Didn't your family bring sabbath stew to this oven?
No, never. -Why not?
You know what happens to it?
At home it was safe.
Maybe 5 percent of the people in the Old City did that.
There was an Arab man who did the ironing.
How did they iron back then? -How?
He had a pitcher with water.
He took the garment, put it here.
The iron had coals.
They put coal inside, it was hot.
He put water in his mouth and sprayed it on the garment,
that's how he would iron.
It worked.
Today it's easy.
Anyone can do it.
But he did it with skill.
Very nice. The way he sprayed water...
Once there was a wedding on Ha-Meidan.
This guy imitated the ironing men, the tailors,
the shoemakers, he imitated them at the wedding.
Everyone laughed. It was great. He put on a show.
Where was your house? -A bit further.
Where the Arabs are.
Here...
This was a butcher shop.
That was a coffee shop.
I forgot to tell you, there was a cafe here too.
Across from Beit El.
Ya'akov Alsheikh's coffee shop.
They called him Yakub. His name was Ya'akov, a Jew.
His son worked at Hadassah.
He had a collection of casts.
He collected the casts
that were removed from arms, legs.
He had a big collection of casts.
That was his hobby.
Let's continue.
There was a storeroom here, not as big as this.
I guess they opened it up, this entire building.
He had eggs, all kinds of things.
There was a storeroom here too, half shop, half storeroom.
There was a small balcony on top. As small as this, made of wood.
On the last day of the Quarter, when we left the Old City,
this was the way to Zion Gate.
I held two baskets.
Full of egg powder,
rice, oil, beans.
All kinds of things, because... it was thrown into the cisterns.
Can you tell us about the way on the last day?
The way to Zion Gate. -From here?
From Beit El through Batei Mahse. To Beit El.
We went through here. -When?
On the last day of the Quarter. It was a Friday.
I had two baskets full of food.
I didn't know where we're going.
I told my mother: "Maybe we're going to Mea She'arim."
She said we have enough junk. Don't take any junk.
Take food. There was no food during the siege in Jerusalem.
We were hungry for days on end. We didn't have bread.
When we went through here,
there was wood up here,
the Arabs set the balcony on fire
and pieces of burning wood fell down.
I was afraid because I had two baskets.
But it fell on...
I hurled it off. My coat got burned, a little.
We continued walking until we reached Zion Gate.
It was so crowded.
1200 people.
It was something...
Here, in this shop...
This was a storeroom.
Haim Zelcer told me, he was a grocer
in the last year or two.
I visited him at his home in Beit Ha-Kerem.
He told me a miracle happened to him on the last day,
he doesn't know how he got out alive.
Weingarten had antiques.
He couldn't go to his home. It was full of Arabs.
But he went there
some 10 days before,
he took the antiques, souvenirs that he got
from his great-great grandfather. He was the Mukhtar of the Old City.
He took suitcases full of stuff.
They had to be packed
so he asked Haim Zelcer:
"Help us pack."
He said: "I went gladly."
Because all his friends were captured.
Maybe if he's with him, they won't take him captive.
In the end a British officer came.
They worked for the Arabs more than the Arabs did.
He asked: "What are you doing here? You should be with them!"
He said, "No". But it didn't help.
There was a British officer,
then an Arab officer came and they took him together.
When he got here he said:
Under this Cantara, where the nuts were stored,
some 5 or 6 Arabs jumped him,
they shoved the British and Arab officers,
and put him inside. They said: "What do you want?
"A knife, a bullet... You want us to strangle you?
"Tell us how you want to die."
He was groggy. He didn't know anything.
He thought he was about to die.
Suddenly he said: "God, what will happen to me?"
"My wife will be a widow, my kids will be orphans."
Then the Arab officer jumped on them
with a few other Arabs.
"Whoever touches him gets a bullet."
And they fled.
The officer accompanied him to the Kishle.
He was shaking so bad.
The Arab officer said: "Don't be afraid. I'm here.
"I saved you from death."
He said that for months he couldn't...
He lived on Ha-Meidan. In this storeroom.
They did whatever they wanted to the Jews.
No one could say a word.
An Arab officer? -He was an Arab officer.
A Legionnaire. -A Jordanian? -Yes.
A Jordanian officer.
Did he take him captive? -He took him to the Kishle.
Everyone was already there. He was alone. He said:
"You can't imagine how scared I was, being alone.
"No other Jews.
"Only...
"Only Arabs."
They had weapons so he was afraid.
If an Arab feels like it, he shoots. No problem.
But this officer protected him.
Some Arabs wanted to go over to him
just as they did to the captives in the Kishle.
He didn't let them. He said: "If anyone goes near..."
Because Abdullah, the King of Jordan
said to Abdullah Al-Tal:
"Make sure your men don't touch the Jews."
King Abdullah gave them an order.
"Whoever touches a Jew will pay."
Imagine that. -Why?
The Legionnaires were polite.
They weren't an army of terrorists.
Like the Iraqis.
The Jordanians were polite.
If not...
Before the Legionnaires entered
they said: "No Jew will remain alive."
They wanted to slaughter everyone.
Where to now, Nachman? -Near our apartment.
Right here.
This is somewhat similar to how it was then.
There were steps here instead of a ramp.
Yosef Einav lived in the courtyard.
Other families too.
Bakura was here.
She had a magic lamp that we turned on.
A magic lamp with all kinds of images.
For two mil.
This is...
What's it called? This supermarket wasn't here.
There was a narrow alley, about a meter wide.
A narrow alley to our apartment. It's not here anymore.
Everything was rebuilt.
It's been rebuilt.
This is my father's balcony,
where he lived after the Six Day War.
He wanted to live in the same place but he couldn't.
You entered from here, today you enter over there.
That's the Rabbi Zilberman yeshiva now.
A yeshiva in our house.
I showed you.
My parents were here.
Rabbi Auerbach, Rabbi Avruche, they lived here before us.
We lived there. I showed you.
This was...
My bed was here, his bed,
my sister, my father, my mother.
This was a winery.
The Benziman family winery.
The winery was down here.
Once we went inside,
when they removed the wine barrels.
Afterwards a Sephardic man, Ginio,
he owned this winery.
So the Sephardim aren't familiar with Benziman, they know Ginio.
Ginio winery.
And here...
This was...
The water faucet was here,
there was a small plaza here.
An Arab came every evening with goats
and sold milk.
We saw him milk the goat.
Fresh milk every day. They came here.
He gave them food,
the kusbe.
I told you, kusbe, the goats' food.
Some goats were nimble, some goats were lazy.
He gave the lazy ones more.
They didn't shove. Some of them shoved...
He hit them on the face.
Then he gave them some more kusbe.
He gave the lazy goats kusbe.
We asked him for a piece.
They did that there and here.
Here there was room to play.
We played Eretz, all kinds of games.
Ago'im.
63 years ago...
Seems like yesterday.
Was there another shop in this area?
No.
This was a club. You see up there?
The entrance was from Habad Street.
The Kobi family lived where those windows are.
His daughter, Shushana Avidan, Kobi,
and Moshe Bechar. They were neighbors.
Kobi worked for the train.
Moshe Bechar was a custodian at the school on Mt. Zion.
I'm not sure, he told me then.
Was there a shop on this corner?
No. This was the Tipat Halav (Baby) clinic. -No, here. Right here.
By the winery. -No, no.
Nothing? -No.
There were several wine shops at the end of Habad Street.
Two wine shops.
There was a blacksmith there too.
He sharpened knives too.
And a barber.
That's all. And the bakery.
A man named Ya'akov Biton lived there.
They called him El Malek, he was like a king.
He had lots of money.
He loaned money to the Arabs with interest.
Let's move away a little, it's noisy here.
It's noisy all of a sudden.
Was there no workshop here? -What?
A workshop? -No, people lived here.
Was there a workshop here? -No. Only a winery.
I don't remember if this window was there back then.
Maybe they renovated, I don't know.
I don't think there was a window. -What?
There was an arch.
Yes.
The window is new.
You can see the arch.
Stand here a second.
Stay here, I'll film you on the background of the house.
You can look over there, at the...
Let's go to your house.
They're studying now. I'll disturb them.
Are they studying now? -Yes.
Shoneh Halakhot Synagogue was up here.
They expanded it.
There were 3 or 4 steps.
There was a yard.
My teacher, Rabbi Shapira, lived on that side.
And Hayyim Hoizman, who owned a wine shop on Habad Street.
On the left side there were stairs to the synagogue.
There were stairs in back too, to the women's section.
The women's section of Shoneh Halakhot? -Yes.
There was a women's section. She went there often.
What did they do now?
They built a large building
and my father lived here.
He left.
He moved somewhere else.
They opened the door here, an iron door.
You open a door and you're in our house.
Once we went that way, through courtyards, cisterns below.
No more, it's all gone.
They changed everything. They changed the place.
Is this the house you grew up in? -Yes.
We lived here for 8 years.
Between what ages did you live here?
From 6 to 14.
Did you leave the Quarter from here?
Yes, from there. No... -Is this the last house?
In the last two weeks we couldn't enter the house.
My father left on the last day.
He went to get a wine goblet, from Grandfather.
A souvenir.
Pictures too. My mother's rings.
All the jewelry. He took a satchel.
The Arabs were already inside.
They asked: "What did you take? Let him pass."
They searched and took whatever he had.
He asked for the cup. "No, it's not yours, it's ours."
It's a miracle they didn't kill him.
He was alone in the house, in the courtyard.
He thought he could salvage something. Nothing.
Then he was taken captive.
Can we go upstairs?
Yes.
It's not like it used to be. -Let's see.
You go up, we'll be right there.
I don't think...
Wait a second.
Wait. Go ahead.
It's all different.
There was a wall and two courtyards.
One courtyard here and our courtyard.
This is the Yemenite synagogue.
Was this inside? -Yes.
The windows are from the Yemenite synagogue.
This was the women's section.
This was the heder we studied in.
We lived down here.
Today there are no more courtyards.
No cistern, where's the cistern... It's all gone.
What's up there now? -A yeshiva.
Rabbi Zilberman's yeshiva.
Before there was a court...
The Rabbinical Supreme Court.
In this building, for several years. I was here a few times.
Down below there was an office and our apartment.
Down below there are spaces where people study.
It's so different.
The Karlin synagogue was here.
You walk along the alley
we came in from.
There's a picture of... when they burned the synagogue.
When?
On the last day. They came in, burned it down.
Maybe before that.
They threw fire bombs. Lots of them.
The Hurva wasn't here.
Two days before we left the Old City, the Quarter,
they destroyed the Hurva
and left one small wall.
There was always an arch over the Hurva.
As if the synagogue still exists.
But... no. They destroyed everything.
They sent a telegram, the Hurva is in ruins.
They sent it from here.
They had... What's it called?
A transmitter.
They transmitted to the city, to the Haganah headquarters,
the Hurva is in ruins.
Nachman, where was your heder?
Down below, here. -Where the boys are?
How about telling them about your heder?
We'll see the difference between what you did then and what they do now.
This is the women's section.
What's in that room? -A yeshiva.
Inside. The coat room.
Can we enter the hall? -From inside, yes.
In our time there was a wooden wall,
with windows above. Glass windows.
The children would jump into the...
The Yemenites had a spiral-shaped shofar...
You know what I mean?
The children would blow...
Now the door is locked.
This is the women's section, the toilet was in this corner.
What toilet?
No toilet bowl, nothing.
There was always a stench of urine.
There was no water to wash.
It's different now.
This was Shoneh Halakhot synagogue, it was big.
The Arabs destroyed it.
They don't want...
Hello.
A miracle. Had he come earlier...
He's here to give a lesson.
Okay.
Down below there were two apartments.
There was an entry from Ha-Yehudim Street.
Like our entry, there was another one beside it.
To get down to the apartments.
Was this the entrance to your apartments then?
No, our entrance was from Ha-Yehudim Street.
It doesn't exist anymore.
I told you, a meter wide alley, very dark.
It was awful at night.
If someone entered and someone came in the other direction
it was scary. -How many people lived in your courtyard?
In our courtyard?
Nine. -Nine families?
No, one widow and a young couple.
But only we and the neighbor upstairs had kids.
There were stairs here to go up.
There was a small entrance here to someone's yard.
I'll tell you one thing.
Something interesting.
We were very poor.
Some days there was no bread at home.
My mother didn't take any loans.
She never took anything on loan from a shop.
She only paid cash.
Some days there was no money for food, no bread in the house.
What did she do? No bread? Nothing to bake?
She made kugelach.
Flour patties, instead of bread.
We had many experiences.
I live those experiences now.
All kinds of games.
We made up interesting games.
All kinds of things.
Five Stones.
Five Stones? No problem today.
There was a matzo building in the parking lot.
At the end of the building there was a Christian,
he made utensils out of clay.
He threw out pieces of clay he didn't need.
We asked if we could take it. He would say yes.
We took clay and made squares,
like stones, 5 stones, that's what we played with.
We left them outside for 2-3 days, they became hard as rock.
We didn't have money to buy.
Did I tell you about Yosef Hadad?
He had thick metal string, squares.
He would cut them and make 5 stones.
Whoever had money bought from him.
Once I said to him: "Yosef,
"can you give me 5 stones? I don't have money."
He said: "Will you ever have money?
"Don't forget to pay me back."
If I had money I would buy... There were many things to buy.
We bought cigarettes, candies...
When we had money, but we never had any.
Later I paid him back. Maybe 5 mils.
A mil, a piece of iron.
So I paid him back. I said: "Yosef,
"I'll pay you back one mil then another."
I remember that, that's childhood.
But...
Every evening we went to Batei Mahse.
We played...
Cops and robbers.
We caught robbers.
Some of the kids were cops, some were robbers.
The cop says: "I think I see a robber."
That's how we played.
What? He's no robber, he's a cop.
That's how we played.
We would catch the robbers
and hold hands
whiletwo cops guarded them, so they don't get away.
Then a third robber comes,
"Hey, what are you doing?"
He scared them and they ran off.
The cops chased after them.
We did all kinds of things.
I see my children, other people's children,
they're not as sophisticated as we were.
Because we made a lot of things up.
We were very sophisticated.
We didn't have the things they have today.
We invented things.
We didn't have money for a flashlight, we studied at night, in Batei Mahse.
Rabbi Yankel,
he took kids and they studied for an hour.
Then he gave them gifts.
Taffy... pictures.
Thursday night he gave every child a glass of milk.
Milk? What a luxury.
Milk?
We drank milk in coffee, a tiny bit, to make the coffee white.
No more than that.
Who drank milk?
There were no street lamps and it was nighttime.
On one street,
on Ha-Yehudim Street maybe there were two lamps.
But the way to Batei Mahse was dark.
What did we do?
Someone who had money
would buy a small box with a candle inside.
We didn't have money. We used an orange.
We removed the inside.
We cut out 4 windows.
Holes in the peel.
We made a handle.
We cut off the top of the orange, but not entirely,
we left a strip.
It was like a handle.
That's how we walked around,
we had lamps to light the way...
It was an experience...
Nachman, how did you study
in this heder? -What do you mean?
Did you study by heart? -No, we had gemaras.
Tell me about this heder. Was it a Yemenite heder before?
It was the biggest heder there was.
Because...
We studied here for two years.
We studied...
I remember,
The Legion conquered the Old City.
But Mt. Zion was ours.
During the holidays, passover, Succot,
we went to Mt. Zion, we climbed the tower,
what's it called... the big tower.
We climbed the tower
and saw the windows of...
We couldn't see our house.
But we saw the synagogue windows.
It was great...
I told my mother:
"You can see the building we lived in and the heder."
It was a great experience.
All my children came.
I showed them where we lived.
Our house and courtyard were down below.
Tell me about... -The heder?
We studied in the heder...
Bava Matzia...
My father lived down below.
Your father? -Yes.
Mine? -No, my father.
He did? -Yes, he lived down below.
Where do you live now? -In Katamon.
My father lived near the synagogue that he built.
Do you know who lives downstairs?
I don't know, but I think,
I don't know how to say it in Hebrew, but did they rent it?
They rented it. -Yes.
My father... Do you know his name?
Could be. Nice.
Do you remember the grandfather?
Our teacher
was Yankel, Moshe Yankel.
Talk to us. We see your back, this way we can see you.
Like this? -Yes. -Okay.
Rabbi Moshe Yankel Eisenstein.
He lived in Mea She'arim.
He came here to teach us every morning as Talmud Torah (school) Hayyei Olam.
Once Hayyei Olam was the Talmud Torah (school) for Hassidim, and another for Litvaks.
But after the pogroms they moved to the city.
On Geula and in Mahne Yehuda.
But you can't leave the Quarter without Talmud Torah (school).
So they sent a Dutch rabbi. From Belgium.
Leizer Brizl, Reuven Shapira and Moshe Yankel Eisenstein.
He came to teach us every day.
On Wednesday he went to the slaughterhouse,
I guess he was the supervisor, I don't remember exactly.
Then he would come here at 11:00.
He came at 11:00 instead of 9:00.
A slaughterhouse in Yiddish is called "baslach."
The children would ask: "Was the rabbi at the baslach?"
He got very angry.
He got upset if we mentioned the word baslach.
We're studying Torah, he's a teacher.
Don't interfere in his matters.
That's the way it was.
He was older too.
But he taught so well.
The sweetness of learning.
He explained well, spoke well. It was great.
We had several teachers, but he was unique.
Gemara is difficult for kids.
I was 9 years old. I studied with him until I was 11.
He would explain and it would penetrate your mind
like a nail in wood.
But he was an older man.
He was often sick.
Every few months he was sick for a week.
We got a substitute.
We knew,
a substitute? We must suffer.
I don't know... We had to do it.
We called him "the sub".
How many children studied in the heder? -Ten.
Ten what? -Ten children.
We were...
Me, Ya'akov Zelcer, Melekh Shapira, Motke Hazan,
Herschel Lifshitz, Yehiel Gruman,
Mendel Rabinowitz, Moishele Brizl,
and Nachman Cohen.
How was that? -Nice job.
I remember all the friends I studied with.
I asked one of them: "What happened to so and so?"
He said: "How do you remember? I forgot about him."
I remember everything... I wrote it all down.
I wrote down who studied with me in the heder,
In Rabbi Brizl's heder there were two new boys,
one left, Eli Kreuzer studied with us too.
I forgot Eli Kreuzer.
One or two years before that,
he had a brother, Baruch Yosef.
He died two weeks before his Bar Mitzva.
They prepared tefillin for him...
suddenly he got sick.
Two children died in our family too.
One who was a year and 8 months old. -How?
Did I tell you about the water we drank?
We only drank boiled water at home.
It was forbidden to drink water.
Only after it was boiled.
To get rid of the worms.
Germs, things like that.
One got typhoid fever, the other one...
I forget the name of the disease.
Typhoid and something else...
Today typhoid fever is a joke.
Once, 90 percent died of typhoid fever.
Almost everyone in the Old City,
this family lost 3 kids, 4 kids, 2 kids...
Everyone had one.
Few were spared, thank God.
But in families with 10 or 12 kids...
I remember, my friend,
suddenly, one afternoon,
we came to study.
He sat on the floor and cried.
I asked him: "Amnon, what happened?"
He said: "My little sister died."
All kinds of things happened.
Today it's very rare.
How did you take it? -From the water.
No, how did you feel
when someone died, was it routine...
People cried, mourned... then they made peace with it.
The parents explained to the children
that these things happen.
Tumors, all kinds of things.
But we accepted it as God's will.
We have to change the cassette.