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My two sisters, Sara and Beya, are named after our grandmothers – Sara Yako Samoilova on my father’s side and Beya Mushon Melamed on my mother’s side. Sara was born in 1925 and Beya in 1932. Later they immigrated to Israel with the aliyah in 1949 [13]. In 1941 when the Holocaust began, I was sent to forced labor camps [14] and knew little about my sisters. Later I became a partisan, after 9th September 1944 [15]. I was very involved in my job and when they left for Israel I lost contact with them. Sara Izidor Samoilova married someone named Glikman, a Ruse Jew, who was a son of one of the shareholders in ‘Shapkarska Industria,’ a hat factory that no longer exists. Beya married a Romanian Jew in Israel. His name is Israel Schwarz and he worked in the Israeli army.
Location
Bulgaria
Interview
Yako Yakov