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I don’t know how he met Regina Hartmann, but they met each other even from so far. Girls weren’t so free [at that time, like today], because they were religious, and they didn’t have any occasion to meet stranger boys [not even Jewish boys].
Boys didn’t have a chance either to meet [girls]. And so it was a custom that they found and introduced [girls to the marrying boys]. It wasn’t fashionable yet in my time, but in my grandmother’s time they [wives] were introduced, arranged.
In my time they [girls] could act more freely already. Uncle Sandor’s had a nice small-wares shop [in Sepsiszentgyorgy] – the shop itself still exists –, but when fascism came, I don’t know why, they gave it as a dowry to their daughter, and it ran under her name.
Boys didn’t have a chance either to meet [girls]. And so it was a custom that they found and introduced [girls to the marrying boys]. It wasn’t fashionable yet in my time, but in my grandmother’s time they [wives] were introduced, arranged.
In my time they [girls] could act more freely already. Uncle Sandor’s had a nice small-wares shop [in Sepsiszentgyorgy] – the shop itself still exists –, but when fascism came, I don’t know why, they gave it as a dowry to their daughter, and it ran under her name.
Location
Romania
Interview
Alice Kosa