Hannie Wolf School Photo

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My first school year, December 1933. We always wore hand-embroidered aprons to school. We leaned to write the German script, and emphasis was put on good penmanship. Arithmetic was taught with the use of an abacus. A few years later, my German teacher Hedwig Ury, wrote this old Arabian proverb into my album, "Four things do not come back - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the neglected opportunity, the past life."

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