Tag #124442 - Interview #78206 (Roza Anzhel)

My brother Isak was born in 1921 in Sofia. Not only was he the oldest of all the children but he was also the only man. He was the one in charge, the ringleader, so to say. All of us more or less conformed with him. He helped my father to make our living by working after school and during the holidays as an apprentice at a barber's. He used to help with the tinsmith work, too, and after finishing the third grade at the Jewish school [8], he became a salesman.

In addition, Isak was very ambitious. After 9th September [9] he attended evening-classes and afterwards graduated from the Institute of Economics and became the director of 'Stalin' Vocational School.