Mano and Dina Gertzovits
This photo was taken before the World War II.
On the left side is my older sister, Dina Gertzovits [nee Walter], next to her is my brother-in-law, Mano Gertzovits.
The others are their friends, they took this photo in a ball. Maybe there was tombola too, that’s why they had numbers.
We had Jewish balls before the war [World War II] in Maramarossziget, at Purim and Chanukkah.
I was a lass, I didn't go to balls, but my sister did. People didn't dance Jewish dances in a Jewish ball, as there were many Christians too, not only Jews.
They danced tango, slow fox - it is a bit more shaking one, but still an even one, similar to the tango - and things of the kind.
My sister, Dina was born in 1920, when my mum didn't marry yet my dad, her name was Walter as my mum was a Walter.
Her husband was Mano Gertzovits, Mendel, who came back after the war [World War II], and got married again.
My sister left [was deported] with her two years old daughter, she didn't return.
