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The market days in Ruse were Tuesday and Friday. There were two markets at the opposite ends of the town. Mostly villagers from the neighboring villages came to sell their produce. I don't think our family had a favorite vendor. By the way, only my mother did the shopping at home. I was not interested in it, although I started working in a shop from an early age, when I was 16 years old. I was hired as a merchant, but I was an errand boy; I did everything, lit the heating stoves, swept the floor, brought parcels from the post office, took parcels to the railway station or the post office etc. When I received my pay, I had to give it to my mother so that she could pay the rent for our apartment. This went on for five years, until 1941, when the Law for the Protection of the Nation [12] was passed and we were forbidden to work.
Location
Bulgaria
Interview
Yako Yakov