Event · School Attendance
Narrator’s first school day
The narrator recalls the first day of school at age three in 1910.
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... I still remember my first day of school,
when I was three, in 1910; the first electrified
weaving loom in our factory in 1911 that illumi-
nated my house on Czysta Street; the 300th
anniversary parade of the Russian kingdom of
Peter the Great; Czar Nicholas’ visit to Bialys-
tok in 1913; the beginning of World War 1 in
1914, when three hundred children on the way
to school were killed by bombs dropped from
German warplanes; a celebration of the Balfour ...Connected nodes