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Well, my father, first of all,
he was put in charge,

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he got a job as the principal
of an ORT School,

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the Organization for Rehabilitation
through Training.

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And there, he set up classes
for the remnant,

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the immigrants who came out of these
shtetls and the camps and the...

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and the concentration camps and so on,

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with no marketable skills,
and he set up electrical workshops.

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There was knitting, you know,
machine knitting,

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there was plumbing, carpentry,
all of these trades. He got teachers.

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But on the side, he decided that his kid
needed to go to school,

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and there was no school.

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So, he tried to gather a group of people

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in the community together
to start a school.

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And it was interesting that a lot of
the people did not want to start a school.

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They felt they were just in transit,

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they weren’t going to invest
any of their time and energy

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into starting a school, but for my parents
a school was important.

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They had a child who was growing up
without any learning.

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So they, he... you know,
by the force of his will

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and his organizing ability
got a school started.

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They got desks
from the local German schools.

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They got paper and pencils and blackboards

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and they hired, you know,
they got a bunch of,

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they had Jewish teachers there,
and I remember starting school there.

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And by the time I came to Canada,
I was well ahead of the kids here

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because I went to school at Eggenfelden.