This is my paternal grandfather Nisim Kalef with his three sons. The youngest was my father, Avram Kalef. The other two died very early. Nisim also died early so I don?t remember him. This photo was taken in the Cabinet Portrait studio in Belgrade in the 1900s.
Nisim Kalef died a banal death. He had a perforation to the caecum and died. His wife, my grandmother Matilda Kalef, remained to struggle with the three kids. Then two sons died and only one remained, my father Avram. I don't know the names of the boys who died.
My father was born in Belgrade in 1902. He was a wonderful child, went to gymnasium, spoke several languages and finished that academy for international trade. My father was a diabetic and had to pay a lot of attention to what he ate.
Nisim Kalef with his three sons
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Matilda Cerge