| Fannie talks about herself
Raisa Meiches, Fannie's grandmother
[Q = Len]
Q. You were saying something about ... I think it was your grandmother. She used to travel to other cities. She even went to Poland.
A. She didn't go to Poland. She was in the hospital with a Polish doctor, so she learned how to speak Polish. I don't how long she was in the hospital to learn Polish.
Q. What was wrong with her?
A. I don't know.
Q. But she went to a hospital there.
A. Yeah.
Q. Do you know what it was?
A. I don't. Her womb dropped or something. I think that was it. I didn't understand what they were talking about, but I think that's what they said.
Some people liked [wax candles] better because they didn't smell.
Q. Do tallow candles smell when they were burning?
A. I don't know. To me they didn't because my grandmother used to bless the candles. She had six of them. Not those big ones, but they're big enough. About this high. They burned all evening, and then when you went to bed, they were still burning.
Q. Why did she light six? [Two is usual]
A. Yeah. That's what I used to ask. But she used to light six. She only had ... well, I understand that they lost a lot of children before...??? my grandfather. Her children were: My uncle (my father's oldest brother) And then there was a girl, a woman, that is, and then my father. That's all the children they had, but they had more before, I heard. I heard Yocheved talking. She was saying they had more, but they died. They lost the first ones, maybe in infancy or something. I had a brother older than Sam. I think he died when he was a little boy, a kid. That's all I know.
Q. Well, why don't we stop for now, and we can do this again tomorrow.
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