Dov Bar's Volchin

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Dov Bar's Volchin

Schools
My family told of me of a Cheder in Volchin.

Shmuel Englander's map refers to a government high-school in nearby Gremyatshe. Shmuel told me that he would walk to that school on foot. In winters when the Pulva was frozen, he had a shortcut, walking on the ice.

Gremyatshe -- Hremiacze
Text under Kol. [Colony] Hremiacze, “Szk” means School.
Combination of 2 inter-war 1:100,000 scale maps,
courtesy of mapywig.org

Editor's Note: Government High-School: By definition, a Polish school. Besides the map notation, the existence of a school in this tiny farming community cannot be confirmed. The approximate distance from central Volchin to Kol. Hremiacze is 3.5 km (2.2 miles). Hannah Kremer, a Jewish survivor of Volchin, tells of attending the high-school in Wysokie Litewskie because there was none in Volchin. Depending on the timing, that may not be consistent with the fact that Shmuel Englander attended a high school not far from Volchin.

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