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My mother Sara Levi was pregrant a year after the death of my sister, when I was three years old, and unfortunately died during birth along with that baby. I was the only boy among her four children. There is also my older sister who is still alive.
Her other two children who died were both girls. They say that the baby suffocated its mother while being born. My father did not take us to her grave a single time. Around 18 years of age, I researched a lot, I went to the military in ’43, and I could not find a trace of my mother. When new roads were built on the old location of Haskoy cemetery, the tombs were demolished too. My mother died in 1929.. the graves were demolished around 1947.
Her other two children who died were both girls. They say that the baby suffocated its mother while being born. My father did not take us to her grave a single time. Around 18 years of age, I researched a lot, I went to the military in ’43, and I could not find a trace of my mother. When new roads were built on the old location of Haskoy cemetery, the tombs were demolished too. My mother died in 1929.. the graves were demolished around 1947.
Location
Beyoğlu/İstanbul
Türkiye
Interview
Nesim Levi