Bonka Davico’s husband Jasa Davico with his daughter Svetlana, his brother Oskar Davico, his aunt Rea Talvi and his cousin Leon Davico

Bonka Davico’s husband Jasa Davico with his daughter Svetlana, his brother Oskar Davico, his aunt Rea Talvi and his cousin Leon Davico

On this photo you can see my daughter (the girl sitting), my husband (in the middle), his aunt (the elderly lady next to him), his brother Oskar (on the left) and his cousin Leon Davico (on the right).

The photo was taken in Belgrade in the garden of our family house in 1954, when aunt Rea came to visit us from Montreal.

My husband Jasha Davico comes from one of the oldest (Sephardi) families in Serbia.

My father wanted me to marry a Jew and he constantly chose boyfriends for me.

And finally when I did fall in love with a Jew dad didn’t like him because he was a communist and so he confined me to the house and wouldn’t let me out. He was very strict about it.

And only after my sister’s mother-in-law, aunt Rhea, a prominent rich Belgrade Jew, pleaded and insisted that he was a very fine young man, did father agree and did I get the permission to marry him.

My husband was a journalist, he finished Law School. Later he became a legal consultant in a large factory in Pancevo.

After the war he first worked for Kidric, the minister of economy and afterwards he switched to journalism.

Then he founded "Ekonomska Politika" which was one of the best newspapers on economy from which everybody borrowed data.

My husband was the manager and editor-in-chief.

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