Arnold and Melania Leinweber wearing paper Tyrolean costumes

This is my wife Melania Leinweber (nee Reischer) and me, Arnold Leinweber wearing paper Tyrolean costumes, a souvenir from the Slanic Moldova spa, in 1956. In the 1950's I worked for the Public Food Trust, as a financial economist. Melania was born in Roman, in 1926. She went to high school and became an accountant. It was with difficulty that managed to have a child - she miscarried several times. She spent three months and a half in bed when she gave birth. She worked as an accountant for the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party until she had the baby, and then she moved to a food store. When I was in high school [evening classes], she used to translate book fragments from Latin or French into Romanian. She had a good reputation, so the Ministry of Light Industry appointed her head of a millinery department. Then she moved to the knitwear and ready-made clothes department, where she was in charge with all the centers countrywide. Knitwear contracting was her responsibility - she had become an expert. She retired in 1981. We rarely went on vacation together because our vacations weren't at the same time or had to work extra. We went to Sangeorz, to Eforie once, to Neptun once, to Slanic Moldova once. From Neptun, she came back with a broken leg, but she recovered. We also went to Buzias, Borsec, Brasov. When in Tusnad, she became ill with aneurism. Melania died in Bucharest, in 1990.