in the room, the lack of rubbish on the floor is immediately noticeable, the
staff on duty wipes the dust from everywhere and cleans up after every meal.
An important event: from now on, everyone has to wash their hands before each meal. Let us go on, higher up. The stairs are swept and dust is wiped from the windowsills. Let us go into the bedroom for the eldest boys, where Burt and his group are cleaning up all right! In the “Zatrzebie” bedroom we also have good duty staff, albeit small, because Hanower and Fliderbaum are on duty. And the other bedroom looks good because “Little Donkey” and Welwek are tidying it up. The worst view is the bedroom for the incontinent, as they require special care. In the first bedroom Klapp with Redlich are cleaning up. I told them to dust their beds today, and Redlich started laughing, he thought I was joking, but I persuaded him. He looks at me and says: “What, wipe the dust, what for?” But he wiped the dust.
In the third bedroom, Lewiner did not want to wipe the dust, either, because he concluded that dusting is so much work, and, in fact, the boys would wipe it off with their own bedding. Our toilet, cleaned by Borensztajn, looks the best and the most decent, it’s nice to go in there! That is what our duties look like.
[9] Josef Fibich, age 10
My Friends
I have friends, they are: Dawid, Adaś, and Abe. I like them very much because
they’re good to me. We always share. We talk about parcels that are sent from
home, play games, and always wait for meals because we are hungry.
Jankiel Hanower, age 11
About Our Dormitory
When I arrived from Zatrzebie, I came here to the dormitory. We rested here
and had dinner and then went to sleep. We slept on the bare wire bedframe.
I didn’t like this dormitory because it was a mess. In Zatrzebie they told us it
