This is my mother-in-law Lenka Isak Behar, nee Alfandari (the one with the colored kerchief) with friends on a vacation in a village near Sofia in 1929. The child is my future husband Jacquelen Behar.
Jacquelen was born on 3rd February 1926 in Sofia. His family wasn't rich - they were workers. They weren't religious. His father entered the socialist movement right after World War I. When Jacquelen was young, he was a member of the communist youth movement. During the Holocaust his family was interned to Vratsa.
Jacquelen's family did not want to move to Israel. His father became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party as early as 1919 and they believed they had to stay in Bulgaria to build socialism and communism.
Jacquelen Behar with his mother Lenka Behar and friends
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Victoria Behar