This is me with my wife Anna and our daughter, Nelli Muller. The photo was taken in Riga in 1966, the year our daughter was born.
Here's how I met my wife. I spotted her buying two tickets for a concert. So I told the woman sellling tickets, Valya, ?Hey Valya, I also need two tickets.? And she says: ?Abram, what, are you crazy? You never liked such performances?? - ?But I want to see one now? - ?Well, here you are.?
So I went there with my comrade, and my future wife came with a friend, too. I invited her to dance although I wasn?t an expert dancer. And she was a little bit offended to see me with my friend, because he was a lady killer.
We didn't date for a long time. About ten times, half a year. She was the first Jewish girl who I liked very much. And that's it. I didn't even know from the start that she was Jewish. And when I found that out, oy - she is Jewish! - OK, it's high time for me to get married. And I have never regretted it. We got registered in 1965.
My wife finished a Physics college here, and then worked at a prison school in Valmiera. Later she worked in another school as a teacher, and deputy director. She studied at post-graduate courses in Moscow. They didn't accept her at university because she was Jewish. But she found a job in the Institute of Improvement of Teachers' Qualifications. Later there was a vacancy of a scientific employee in the institute at the Ministry of Education. Soon she became the chief of the department of labor training - in the Institute of Pedagogics of the Ministry of Education. It was considered a prestigious post. Then she was invited to read lectures. Now my spouse is the Dean of the faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Latvian University.