Tag #125101 - Interview #97653 (Rebeka Evgin)

I am the fifth child of my family.   Avraam and Yakoov are the sons of my father from his first wife, they are my brothers from the same father, but different mothers.  They weren’t very happy about my mother and father getting married.  They thought that since my mother was a young woman, she would have a lot of children.  They manipulated the dry goods and notions store the way they wanted and during a period when my father was ill, they used it to further their own financial benefits.  My father sold fabrics by meters during that time, he opened up a small store and earned our living.  He did not have a fabric store any more when I was able to remember.  He had a small grocery store and earned his living from this store.  They say that Avram Babaoglu resembles my father a lot.  When I went to Israel in 1977, I saw my older brother after a lot of long years.  He had already grown old. During the years Avram Babaoglu immigrated to Israel, Israel had not even become a nation, it was under the protection of the British, it was a place of war and poverty.  Going there seemed like an adventure more or less.