Tag #116234 - Interview #100288 (Eta Gurvichuyte )

Bluma, born in 1870s, was the eldest in the family. Her husband’s name was Burstein. I had never seen her husband. He left for America long before I was born. Bluma’s husband was supposed to invite her and children to the USA as soon as he had settled in. After his departure Bluma received no letters from her husband. He vanished into a thin air and Bluma did not manage to hear from him again. She had to make a living somehow, so she opened up a small grocery store in one of the rooms of our house. All our neighboring people – Jews and Lithuanians purchased products on credit. The information on all purchases and debts was entered in a large logbook. Then the buyers paid for the goods they way the could. Bluma took no interest from them and common people, who were Bluma’s customers, loved her. My father helped out Bluma both materially and morally as Bluma raised children without husband.