Tag #151816 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

In 1993 my wife retired. I insisted on it since she didn’t want to leave her job. She did housework, but she missed communicating with people. We decided to move to Uzhgorod closer to her sister and brother. I sold my house in Beregovo and bought an apartment in Uzhgorod. It’s a good apartment and I tried to make it comfortable and cozy. However, I do not have communications in Uzhgorod. It’s hard to make new friends at my age. In Beregovo there were people with whom I spoke Yiddish and Hungarian, and we visited one another. We always had guests. Everybody knew me and I knew everybody, but I am alone here. Of course, there is a Jewish community here and I am acquainted with its members, but our relationships are not as close as the ones that we entered into when we were young.