Tag #127807 - Interview #97497 (Sami Schilton)

My mother, Dina Viktorya Schilton (nee Danon) was born in Istanbul.  My mother was also like my father, with a very modern mentality.  She dressed in the modern way and got along with everybody.  My mother was a serious but talkative person, who was also very understanding.  My mother also studied until secondary school.  She studied at the Alliance Israelite Universelle school in Ortakoy [a district on the European coast of the Bosphorus].  After she finished school, she did not do anything, she became a housewife.  Her mother tongue was Judeo-Spanish.  She also spoke Turkish and French.  However, the language of communication in the family was Judeo-Spanish.  Apparently my mother and my father met through a matchmaker but they never told me how they met and got to know each other.  They got married in Bursa.  My mother went to Bursa from Istanbul and the wedding took place there.  I do not know when they got married but they were married at the Bursa synagogue [3].