Tag #152550 - Interview #101417 (Sarah Kaplan)

After some time Zeilik arrived at his relative Mendel’s place in Kiev. We got married shortly after. We had a civil ceremony and began our life together in Mendel’s one-bedroom apartment. When the war was over Mendel helped us to obtain a license, and we opened a barber-shop at the Evbaz. [Editor’s note: Evbaz is the name of the Jewish bazaar, an old Jewish neighborhood in the center of Kiev.] However, there was too little space in Mendel’s apartment and we had to think about getting a dwelling of our own. At that time people were recruited to work in Western Ukraine and the Baltic Republics that had joined the USSR some time before. We were attracted by the promise to get a job and a place to live and went to Chernovtsy. There was work, but we didn’t get an apartment. In 1950 my husband and I arrived in Lvov where my husband’s uncle lived.