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This is my little sister Rozica Calmanovici. She’s very young in this picture – she must be about 3 years old. She was a cutie! I loved her tremendously. Look at her blue dress with flowers. I was the one who took her to the seamstress when she had to try it on. I took care of her just like a grown-up. She died before she had even turned 11. It was such a terrible loss…
I had a little sister, Rozica, who was 9 years younger than me, she was born in 1937. She died in 1947, she was almost 11, she had just graduated 4th grade of primary school. Had we found some sulphamid back then in Botosani, perhaps we might have saved her. She contracted typhoid fever. This was after the war, it was that drought, we had no money…
