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I was so happy to be there, you know, finally the dream came true, because, you know, we were dreaming about having a homeland of our own. And finally I came, you know, I remember walking in the streets of Tel Aviv and seeing inscriptions in the Hebrew language. My goodness, it, it was like a, like a dream. This, and, and it was Hanukkah time by the time I came to Jerusalem and, uh, in the, uh, show windows of the stores there were Hanukkiot, you know, the candelabras for Hanukkah with candles, and, you know, all of a sudden the memories from my childhood, from my grandmother, everything came back to me because during the five years of the war there was no Jewish holidays for me. So all of a sudden, you know, it was coming back, and I, I had to, to change my, my image again, you know. First I had to change from being a Jewish girl to a Polish girl. Now I had to, to, to crawl out from the Polish skin and crawl back into my Jewish skin. These are psychological processes which are not easy. |