This is a photo of my brother Haim Saltiel, taken in the 1930s in Sofia.
Haim was born 1918 in Sofia. He has a secondary education and studied in the same Jewish school as I did. He is not very religious, but he observed the traditions.
At the beginning of the 1940s my paternal aunt Tamara gave a plot near the entrance to her house on Stamboliiski Street to him so that he could build a shed and start repairing shoes there.
During the Holocaust my brother was sent to forced labor camps.
Haim married in Sofia in 1945 in accordance with the religious ritual. Haim was a cobbler, but later in Israel he worked with El-Al, where he was engaged in the maintenance of the Israeli planes. He retired in this job. As a character he is ambitious and strict. He is not interested in politics. He has two children - Rivka and Tali, which is short for Naftali.
