This is me when I was one year old, I think. I was born in Botosani in 1909 and I had two older siblings, Ernestina and David. After me the others, Jenica, Tobias, Sidonia and Henrieta were born.
The elder siblings usually looked after the younger ones, although I had a Christian nanny from Botosani when I was little, and at one point, one of my younger siblings, I don't remember who, had one as well. My mother and my maternal grandparents were around us a lot and watched over us, so we never went to kindergarten.
Louiza Vecsler
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