Tag #146774 - Interview #83398 (Ninel Kunina)

In October 1925 they got married and Dad moved to live with Mom, to her large family and to their big apartment. There in 1926 my brother Volodya was born, and one and a half years after their wedding Dad found a room near mother’s apartment, rented it, and in it we lived till 1954. Father’s extended Jewish family frowned upon his marriage, as he didn’t marry a Jewess, and for ten years they didn’t accept her into their family. Certainly, Mom was present at my father’s family get-togethers, but she always felt coldness and insincerity directed toward her by his relatives. We had to see all relatives often, as all of us lived in the same street, we visited each other at birthday parties, celebrated all major Jewish holidays.