| Marina Garrido Monteiro was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 1932. She belongs to a family of musicians and she herself plays the piano. She has happy memories of her childhood, as we can see from her testimony (in 1992): |
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Marina Garrido Monteir
with her friends at Aclimação School
(São Paulo, Brazil, 1939) |
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| "The entire neighborhood was lovely, really lovely. We never had any problems that I can recall -- my mother and the neighbors, never. Everyone had lots of friends. I went to Aclimação School, and it was wonderful. I have a friend that I've always stayed in touch with. I'm fifty-nine now, and we've been friends since we were four. And I'm still in touch with a group of friends that I've known since secondary school, when I was eleven. We don't visit each other often, but we talk on the phone, and if there's ever a problem, we discuss it among ourselves and support each other. As I told you, thank God, I have always been surrounded by people, really lovely people. So I don't mind not having a brother or a sister, not at all..." |
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Regina Fleider
(standing, 3rd from the left) and her friends at elementary school (Duankoi, Russia, 1957)
Francisco Sala Montserra
with kindergarten classmates (Barcelona, Spain, 1936)
Leonie Rosenthal
with colleagues from a cooking course (Dusseldorf, Germany, 1921)
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