Translated from the original Hebrew by Doron Zeilberger (original was written Dec. 1938)
Posted: Aug. 2, 2025
After matriculating from highschool I "interned" in a restaurant for learning to cook. This was in training before I entered a Teacher Training College ("seminary") for Kindergarten teachers. I started there on May 15 [no year mentioned, but presumably 1934]. We were the first [students] in the [new location of the] Jewish [Pre-K] Seminary in Berlin. So we didn't go to the old building, but entered a large new "apartment" that was empty for a long time. Because it was very dirty, we cleaned all the rooms during the first few days. In the first month, we didn't have any lessons in theory, but rather we learned in a practical way by working in a nursery school, and we did house-keeping work. After that, the actual learning started. We learned all the theoretical material and also worked in nursery schools and in elementary schools, and once, for five weeks, in a "children house"[?] . After two years I took the the Exam to be a certified preschool teacher [and passed it].
When I finished, I went for one year to Munich [as an "intern"], to a "children house" [boarding school?], where I worked in the Nursery school. There were 10 children who also lived there, and 16 children who only came during the day. They were four interns altogether. I loved to work there, and see how the children developed, for a year. I was very sad when I left and started working in a school in Dinslaken in the Niederrhein [Lower Rhine region]. I stayed there only three months, and then returned to Berlin. There I worked with little and big children, many of them were not normal. But also this work made me happy. During this time I prepared for my "aliya" (move to Palestine). I waited for a long time, until I got the immigration certificate and made aliyah [to "artsa"[Land of Israel]].
I made aliyah nearly four months ago. In the evening I left Berlin, and the next morning arrived at Munich. Then I continued [my train ride], but didn't go straight to Trieste, but rather visited, for three days, my relatives in Florence [most likely her first-cousin Edith Baron and her husband, renaissance scholar Hans Baron]. There I saw beautiful places and nice things. At the time the Jews didn't yet know about the new persecution, but had a premonition. From Florence to Trieste I had to travel [by train] for eight hours. Together with a family that took the same train, we were greeted by an immigration official from the Palestine office who lead us to the immigration office. I met there people who already lived in Palestine for a long time, and now returned to their home. On the boat, the next day, I met many more people who were happy to return artsa. There we learned about the new meoraot (riots), that were mainly in Haifa, and that the people very sad. At Haifa, I disembarked and met my two sisters and my brother-in-law. We were very happy. We quickly went to Kiryat Bialik, since my relatives live there in agricultural village. I stayed there for two months, and then went to Jerusalem.