Tag #127521 - Interview #98039 (Izak Sarhon)

My mother’s father, (Nesim Danon) was a very serious man.  He must also have been a highly informed [he uses the expression “cultured” when he means “a man of the world who is informed, can speak many languages and has also had more years of schooling than the average person of the time, especially if that schooling was done at the Alliance schools”] man because he was doing trade (I don’t really know what kind of trade because I was very young at the time) with England at that time.  He used to go to England on business, and at that time this was done by ships because there were no planes then.  I do not remember his face or anything about him; I just remember the day he died.  On that day, they did not let me see him when they were about to take his body out of the house because he died in the house.  I was very young at the time, that is all I remember.  I assumed he was an educated man afterwards when I learned about what he had been doing as business.