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I used to get clothes from the Free School. I got a corduroy jacket and trousers, and a pair of boots. I had difficulty lifting them. You could hear somebody walking in those boots a mile away. We got them once a year before Passover. We also got free dinner tickets – but they only gave a certain number of tickets to each class, so if you were lucky you got the meal, and if not you had to go home. And in the morning, if you came before time, you used to get a chunk of bread and an enamel cup with some milk in. At dinner I had to eat whatever Mother made. We had to be satisfied. It was a lousy life. During those years I was always very frail because I didn't get the nourishment needed.