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A doctor named Nivo/Yibo (sp?) is mentioned in many books about Vilna/Vilnius
This doctor was saved along with the fourteen people where we were before. And that's his house over there.
He came after the first world war and had a large picture of Sholem Aleichem in his house.
so it was called the Sholem Aleichem school.
Man's voice: sorry which house was it?
Fania: Past there by the white window.
In all of the schools, especially the elementary schools (folk shuls), there were Jewish "cabinets" (gyms?)
The schools that didn't have the Jewish gyms would send the students here to exercise in that house.
Additionally there was a botanical garden and a very small zoo right there.
Well. There was a wolf. But not a real big one.
This was for the students to use.
Eliot: This used to be the Bund's meeting place.
Man's voice: The bund's meeting place?
Eliot: Yeah, with the two snowmen.
My father, a stuanch Bundist remembers how they used to meet here, especially between the two wars.
When it was legal for them to meet.