Victoria Angelova and her relatives

Victoria Angelova and her relatives

This photo was taken in Sofia in the 1920s. My mother Victoria Angelova, nee Elazar, is on the very right, Aunty Regina is next to her - she was one of my grandfather's relative - and Uncle Leon, her husband is on the very left. My aunts Lunna Albelda, nee Elazar, and Paola Gadol, nee Elazar, are the ones standing. I don't know who the children and the woman next to uncle Leon are. My mother's whole family moved to Sofia at the beginning of the 1920s. All her sisters and her brother were very young and most of them started working as shop assistants. They lived on Pirotska Street when they came to Sofia and afterwards they moved into a house on Otetz Paisii Street in the Jewish neighborhood of Iuchbunar. There were many textile merchants and my mother and her sisters managed to start working in their shops. All my mother's sisters got married in Sofia without having any dowry because they were all very poor. After they moved to Sofia they all found jobs and contributed to the family's income. My mother wanted to have some qualification, attended a typing course and started work as a typist. She met my father at this course. They all lived in the house on Pirotska Street then.
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