Victoria Angelova, Lunna Albelda and Zelma Avramova

This is a picture of my mother Victoria Angelova, nee Elazar (in the centre) and two of her sisters - Aunt Lunna Albelda, nee Elazar (on the left) and Aunt Zelma Avramova, nee Elazar. The photo was taken in Kyustendil, on Hisarluka [a hill in the central part of the town], in 1931.

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.

Aunt Zelma married a textile merchant and went back to live in Kyustendil - their house was in the center of town. I remember that when I was a little child my mother used to take me to Kiustendil every summer to visit my aunt.

My aunt Mara, as we called Lunna, lived on Bratia Miladinovi Street with my uncle Anriko and before my cousin was born I used to live with them for a few weeks.