This is me as a schoolteacher during a physics class. The photo was taken in Chernovtsy in 1972. After the university I got a job assignment in a Moldavian village and worked there for two years as a teacher of physics. Afterwards I returned to Chernovtsy. It was hard to get a job there – my Jewish nationality was a problem.

I got a part-time job first and then became a full-time teacher of physics. I worked for 36 years. I was also a class tutor, a hiking club chief and a producer of school performances. Hiking was our favorite hobby, we traveled all over Bukovina. My former pupils still visit me, and we recall our evenings by the fire. I liked children and they liked me in return.