This is my uncle Chelebi Yulzari, my father's brother, photographed in the 1920s, but I don?t know where.
My uncle Chelebi was a tall, strong man with big blue eyes and a good heart. The whole family on my grandfather Kemal and my grandmother Gracia's side are blue-eyed.
Before the war my uncle Chelebi was a peddler, a vendor of sweets. He did all kinds of work, whatever he could find. He was even a candy shop assistant. He married Perla, a Haldeyan ['Haldeyan' or 'Tudesk' is how the Sephardi Jews called the German Jews in Bulgaria] from Sofia. There was a time when they quarreled so much that they were on the verge of getting divorced. Then he came to live with us. He lived in our house for a year and worked as a seller for his cousin Sebata Yulzari. Uncle Chelebi left for Israel with his family in 1948, where they stayed until they died. Regina became a well-known journalist in Israel, while Sami was a dental surgeon.
Chelebi Yulzari
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