After Easter of I941, I started to school. It was a real treat to get away from the sandbox, the old woman and the yogurt. Siegie was already in the second grade. He walked to school every morning. Mom took me to school on the first day. but after the first day, Siegie and Manny and Fritz, and a few other kids from the apartment complex walked to school every morning.

We had a ten-minute walk. We crossed a street only once. The blocks we walked had other apartment complexes on both sides with a few...