Tag #116239 - Interview #100288 (Eta Gurvichuyte )

Father got married in 1909 at the age of thirty. They say, he met my mother with the help of Jewish match-makers- shadhans. My mother was from Lithuanian town Taurage [200 km from Vilnius]. My maternal grandparents Benjamin and Sarah Goldsmidt were truly religious people. Grandfather was born in the 1860s. He was a respectable man in Jewish community of Taurage. He was a gabai of the local synagogue. It was his only social work. He made lemonade for a living. He had a tiny shop, where he and one hired worker made lemonade.