What was The Brewery like? I’ve also been down into the cellars. It’s cold (laughs) and the barrels reach the top, I don’t even know how tall they are, they have a small plug, a small tap and of course, they have blonde beer, huge deep tanks. You can drown in beer. I visited it in 1960. I’ve visited the brewery several times. I went to the cellars there, it’s very chilly, it’s cold down there. Today most of the brewing equipment is above the ground, but the tanks are down there somewhere. I asked the workers there to pour me some beer. They served me beer, it was like ice, couldn’t drink it. They use hops, as in the original recipe, they also make dark beer; anyway, the founder, I think the founder was a Transylvanian Saxon. Can’t remember his name. This brewery is celebrating I do not know how many years of existence. It’s written on the bottles. It’s a famous company, among the oldest, Fabrizius was the owner. The Kimmel liqueur manufacturing company was over there. It was a privately-owned company. They produced liqueur by maceration, there were barrels in a row, where they fermented fruit and so. They also added coffee, sugar ... It was a liqueur manufacturing company... I think it went bankrupt. The house is still there today, the building.

Oscar Schwartz, born in 1910 in Vienna - excerpt from an interview by Adrian Onică, Timișoara 1999, The oral history and anthropology group archive, coordinated by Smaranda Vultur.

Craftsmen were meeting at the Brewery, at Wittemberger, at Iles. Wittemberger was across from the Brewery. That's where the older people would gather and the younger ones, 10-15 at a time, would rent a table and play cards. They had a lot of fun! There were pool tables, chess tables. In the evening there was dancing. My father was an ordinary man, a cashier at the bank and then became a teller, but that was later, that he learned and had qualities: he was writing letters very nicely. He used to take us on Sundays to Luna-parc, to the Green Forest, where the C.F.R. stadium is. It was gorgeous! There were all kinds of entertainment! There was, for example, a lake with ducks and people would throw hoops at them. And every two or three weeks, by chance, you would hit a hoop on a duck and a prize would be given. You could shoot from 11 metres. Different comedians would come and put on shows. You could drink the delicious Azuga beer, which was then a new, fashionable beer. There was also beer from Timișoara: Dreher, Timișoara or Hungarian beer, Köbánya. There were those huge pretzels for children. And people would go out and have fun for a small amount of money. All this was cheap, any commoner could afford it.

Horwáth Lajos, born in 1921, in Becicherecu Mic - excerpt from the interview conducted by Antonia Komlosi in Timișoara in 2001, published in Smaranda Vultur, Vlad Colar, Thomas Remus Mochnacs, Gabriela Panu, Memorie și diversitate culturală la Timișoara: meserii și meseriași, Brumar Publishing House, Timișoara, 2013

After 11 years I got divorced, and for 30 years I have been married to Faber Waldemar, who is a man you rarely meet. My father had friends who were Jewish, German and Serbian, but mostly Jews came to us. My mother worked at Kohn Adolf, who was Jewish, in Fabric, across from the Brewery. It was a big varnish and paint company. My mother was a cashier there, then she worked at Noris, an electrical company, which was also owned by a Jew and was in Vertes Street. Textile shops were also owned by the Jews Denias and Pollak, as you walk towards the train station, on the corner. Of the Germans, Zikkeli had a delicatessen shop on Treboni Laurian Street.

Terezia Faber, born in Timișoara in 1930 - excerpt from the interview conducted by Roxana Pătrașcu Onica in Timișoara in 2001, The oral history and anthropology group archive, coordinated by Smaranda Vultur.