The headmaster of the boys’ elementary school was Mr. Hoffman, a very nice person.

Until the time when Romania entered the War, I studied at the Unirea College, but the day came when all Jewish students were expelled.

By care of the leadership of the then Jewish Community the Jewish College was founded, and a whole generation of future Jewish intellectuals was rescued.

Of my period of studies at the “Unirea” College, I remember the Physical Education teacher Zigmund Lupu (Juma) who was also expelled and we met again at the Jewish College. He influenced me and the other students greatly. He always combined physical education with the preparation of the Jewish youth for the immigration to Israel.

Another recollection: we had a teacher of Physics at the “Unirea” College who did not know how to explain the material and therefore I hated it. At the Jewish College I found Mr. Martin Bercovici (Palariuta), an engineer, who taught Physics so skillfully that I choose to become an engineer.

Another teacher at the Unirea College – and afterwards at the Jewish College – was Mr. Brick. He spoke seven foreign languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Antique Greek, Latin, Arameic, French, German and others. He taught Latin. Thanks to him I could read and understand "De Bello Gallico". He was kind to the students, and I treasure his memory.

French I learned with Mr. Popovici, a very intelligent Jew and an excellent pedagogue. He had a pretty daughter, Mioara (passed away in 2002 )

Attorney-in-Law Lazar taught Law (we are not related).

In 1940-1944 I studied at the Jewish College, but this did not help to avoid being taken to various forced labor camps, and therefore the attendance of the classes was very poor (especially when I was in the Doaga-Camp, in 1943-1944). Thanks to the teachers I mentioned and all the others, finally I was able to graduate from the College and passed the Maturity Examination with better marks than my Romanian schoolmates
It needs to be mentioned that the Jewish College had no permanent place; it wandered from one improvised building to another, the buildings of the Jewish Schools being commandeered.

After the war I graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Jassy and started to work as an engineer in various factories and institutions in Romania, until 1970, when I came to Israel. Here I was employed at the Haifa and Ashdod refineries. I was one of the engineers who built this refinery. I am a member of the Union of Engineers in Israel, USA and England, and also of the New York Academy of Sciences.