This picture was taken in 1950, two years before my parents immigrated to Israel. My brother together with my sister Matilda Beniesh immigrated there already in 1949. My parents left for Israel a little later. The picture was taken in our native town Ruse in 1950.
From right to left are: my father Sinto Beniesh, my son Sinto Yulzari, my daughter Buena Yulzari, my mother Rashel Beniesh, my husband Mois Yulzari and I.
My father, my mother, my sister and my brother all immigrated to Israel in 1949. I didn’t immigrate to Israel for ideological reasons. My husband was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. I stayed in Bulgaria because of him. I shared his views. I am still a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. I don’t go to party meetings any more, but I regularly pay my duties.
At present both my brother’s daughters live in Israel together with their families. We still keep in touch. They came to visit us and I visited them twice: in 1959 and in 1960. I have never had any problems concerning political matters or any other problems connected with my trips to Israel or my keeping the relationship with the nearest and dearest.
When I was back from Israel I was always carrying presents for my colleagues – Bulgarians. I used to bring them ball-point pens, because in Bulgaria at that time people wrote with pens, that is, penholders dipped in ink, and the modern ball-point pens were still unknown. Before my departures it was these friends who saw me off.
Nobody has ever said anything bad to me. Something more – in 1963 the director of the enterprise where I worked invited my sister together with her husband to have a look at our modernized enterprise during their visit to Bulgaria.
