The wedding of Benu and Martzy Solomovici

This is my cousin, Benu Solomovici, with his wife, Martzy - Martzy Schuffer was her maiden name. This photograph was probably taken on the occasion of their marriage, and they sent it to my mother, Sura - people also called her Saly - Ghebergher and to me, Marim - Maly - Haller. The back of the photograph reads: "With love to Aunt Saly and Maly, so that we remain an example in the family. Martzybenu, 14.II.1945."

My mother had a sister, Dora Solomovici. She lived in Botosani as well. Her husband - whom I haven't met, either - died, and left her with 4 children. However, all of them graduated high school, they made a life for themselves. These were my 4 cousins: Lazar, Liza, Benu and Tili. And my aunt was left a widow to raise the children, and my uncle - Avram Klein - supported her and the children. He took care of most anything when the children were little - he supplied them with various things, gave my aunt spending money.

Benu was 1 year younger than me [was born in 1916]. He was married to Martzy Schuffer and had a child - I no longer remember its name. Benu worked at the Scanteia newspaper, his name was Barbu Stoian, but I couldn't tell you if he officially changed his name or only published under that name. [Ed. note: The Scanteia (Spark) newspaper, instrument of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee, started to be legally published in 1944].

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