This is me (the first to the left) in the dining room at Hesed during the first Pascal seder. Fira is next to me. I didn’t know her very well, she just sat next to me at the table. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 2003.

When I start thinking about my life, I can't say why I'm alone, or why I remained single. First of all, I was very shy and had an inferior complex and secondly, I wanted the maximum. I fell in love with interesting people, who paid no attention to me, and those who wanted to date me weren't interesting in my view. That's life.

This is our family. My paternal grandmother’s brother Sapsai Hazin arranged a family reunion shortly before he died. The first, bottom row: my nephews, children. In the second row sitting from left to right: my father, Joseph Shapochnik, my mother Pesya is next to him, the 3rd to the left is Sapsai Hazin, his sister Enna Goldenstein is next to him, her husband Goldenstein, I don’t remember his first name, the wife of my father's brother David, Dora, David Shapochnik. The first to the left in the 3rd row is me, then Enna's daughter Haya Goldenstein, and Enna's sons.

This is me and my mother Pesya Shapochnik. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 1939 during a stroll.

This is my mother Pesya Shapochnik in the center. To the left is her friend Fanya Berekhman. I don’t know the girl to the right. The picture was taken in Kishinev in the late 1920s.

This is my mother Pesya Shapochnik in the lyceum uniform. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 1915.

To the left is my mother's brother Lazar Treiger, clad in a work jersey, and the other two are his friends, whose names I don’t know. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 1911. Lazar gave this photo to my grandmother.

This is my mother Pesya Shapochnik with her brother Boris Treiger. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 1928.

This is the family of my mother's elder brother Lazar Treiger: Lazar, his wife Annette, and their son, Izrael. The picture was taken in Kishinev in 1922. On the back of the picture it says: To my dear parents from Annette, Lazar and Izya.