Roza Anzhel, Tsivi Nusan and Ester Galvy

This is me (on the left), Tsivi (in the middle) and Stela (Ester). We are on Lege Street. The photo was taken in Sofia in 1948. On the back of the photo there is neither a stamp of a photo shop nor any other inscription - a symbol or a dedication. At that time Tsivi - my sister-in-law, my brother Isak's wife, was still single.

My sister Ester or Stela Galvy, nee Varsano, was born in 1926 in Sofia. The fact that we were almost the same age made us very close because of the common problems we used to have. She was my first confidante who would often defend me in front of our mother. Stela finished the preliminary classes and the first, second and third grade at the Jewish school and the Jewish elementary school as well. After 9th September she started going to evening classes, but then she got married, the children came and she didn't complete her education. She worked as a seamstress. She got married in 1948 to my husband Leon Anzhel's friend, Aron Galvy. They have two daughters, Olga and Galya. At present Stela lives in Israel. She left twelve years ago, in 1994.

My brother Isak got married at an early age, in 1942 or 1943, to Tsivi Nusan, who had actually come to our house to live with him a year before their marriage. She was so much in love. While he was a student my brother used to sing in the Synagogue choir. He was religious. My parents had arranged his bar mitzvah. He had two children with Tsivi, Subby and Rout.