This is a photo of my son Sinto Yulzari with his wife, Sima Yulzari, nee Maier, and me in front of their shop in Ruse. The photo was taken in the 2000s in Ruse.
My son Sinto and my daughter-in-law Sima have their own grocery in one of Ruse's suburbs. I am the woman with the walking stick who is sitting between them. Right above our heads, one can read the logo 'Sima Grocery.'
My life after 9th September 1944 was calm. We weren't well-off, but we had everything we needed. My husband was a director of 'Toplivo' [a big state-owned company for coal and timber] for twenty years. I want to emphasize that my husband and I never had any problems at work because of our origin.
In 1946 I gave birth to my son, Shemuel (Sinto) Yulzari, and my daughter, Buena, was then already six years old. We brought them up as Jews and because of that they have had Jewish identity since their early years.
At present my son is an associate professor in child pedagogy at the Veliko Turnovo University. He had been a teacher at the Institute of Pedagogy for a long time, after that he became a Ph.D., and later an associate professor. His wife had worked as an engineer in a plant in Ruse, but she got dismissed and now works in a grocer's shop.
