To Kamenets
The next day, we went to Kamenets to get our passports stamped. We looked at the shops and again I was surprised to see how well the people were dressed. The goods in the shops were very expensive and they did not have the money to buy them. We saw quite a few cars.
To Wolkovysk
From Kamenets we went to Wolkovysk and there it was the same again: everybody looked nice and was very pleasant. We did visit a few shops but it was very depressing: there was only one little light in large stores because they could not afford the electricity bill.
Once we had finished here, we went back home and had lunch. The food was very poor. Each day there was bread, potatoes and borsht made from cabbage. She gave us a little meat, but I knew she had to try hard to get it, and it was especially for us.
Walking in the village, we met an old gentlemen and I asked Sevllana to ask him if he knew anything that happened there during the war, did he know any of the Jewish people, did he remember anything? I wanted so much to know and hear everything that actually happened here before and during the war. He said, yes, he, remembered quite a few things. So I asked him would he mind coming up to the house and tell me what he remembered, but of course my Russian is not very good. I did not learn Russian; it was only a few words I picked up. I did learn Polish the two years that I went to school in Volchin but I have forgotten it. But to my amazement I could speak Russian. My husband turned round and said, “Do you know you can speak Russian? You are doing very well. You manage to converse with people.” I did not realise how well I managed to speak with them.
