Tag #156745 - Interview #78355 (Mrs. Gábor Révész)

After she had us, my mother didn’t work. But then the Domestic Combed Yarn and Textile Works where she’d worked as a young woman took her back. She had earlier worked in their city office, but then, in 1936, she had to go all the way out to Soroksári út, where the factory was located. She was what we’d call today the secretary of the German manager. She wrote his letters and kept everything in order around him. I remember that her monthly salary was two hundred pengős, which didn’t half cover our expenses, so we moved from our three-room apartment to a two-room apartment. First we moved to Szív utca in the sixth district, then a couple of years later to Szondi utca, because my mother’s younger brother lived there. Meanwhile my grandmother died and grandfather moved in with his son. My mother rented a two-room apartment two blocks down the street, at Szondi utca 46/c. I think she was hoping that this way there’d always be someone looking after us. We had lunch at my mother’s sister-in-law, who was a dental technician, and who worked at home. She fed the whole family, her father-in-law as well as us. She cooked every day because she worked at home. I don’t know whether my mother paid her for it, but at least we had something warm to eat every day around noon, and in the evening my mother cooked for us.