Tag #137077 - Interview #98768 (Leon Seliktar)

We played with the children and the adults helped each other. Grandfather Avram was a merchant. His wife was a housewife. They had three sons and one daughter. My grandfather had two brothers and two sisters, but I don’t remember them. Neither do I remember the brothers and sisters of his wife Lea. Grandfather Leon had one sister and one brother and his wife Linda had one brother. Grandpa Avram worked with his brothers and Grandpa Leon worked with him. They were craftsmen and worked with metal: they made dishes, constructions, anything you can make out of metal. They were called ‘zhelezari’ [blacksmiths]. In those times weddings were usually arranged by the parents without their children even knowing each other. But Grandmother Lea found out where her fiance, whom she had never met, lived and when he was going to work one day, she had a look at him. And what’s more, she liked him. My grandfathers served in the army. I don’t know where Grandfather Avram served, but Grandfather Leon fought in the First Balkan War [8] and the Second Balkan War [9]. He was a sergeant major and had a military cross and some medals, with which we played.