Zofia Bugajska

This is my mother, Zofia Bugajska, nee Zelinger. The photo was taken in Radomsko in the 1910s. The most important person in our home was my mother, whom we loved very much, because she was a friend rather than a parent. She agreed to many things, but also required many things from us. She brought us up well. Her maiden name was Zelinger, Zofia Zelinger. She had an inferiority complex, she was obese; before getting married she strove for her parents to send her to Marienbad. They did send her there, but I don't know whether it helped anything. She was very beautiful, a typical Aryan. She was 16 when they married her: to a man from Radomsko. And so she married a Bugajski. How did she meet him? I don't know whether matchmaking was involved, I can't remember those things. She was less than 17 years old when she gave birth to me. And she died young, in 1940. I was the first child, born 1st October 1914; they got married on New Year's Eve? I even had her ring, with the dates engraved.

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