Adela, David and Sima Levi at Borovets

Adela, David and Sima Levi at Borovets

My family at Borovets in 1952, from left to right are: my husband David Levi, our daughter Sima and I. My daughter, Sima Davidova Evtimova, was born in 1949. She graduated in Spanish Philology, lives in Bulgaria, but is unemployed now. She is married to a Bulgarian and has two children: Alexander who is 28 years old, and Adelina who is 23. My grandson has a degree in management and works for his father and my granddaughter has a degree in computer graphics and photography. After the Ministry for Internal Affairs my husband started working for 'Trud' newspaper and then for the magazine 'Balgarski Profsaiuzi'. He had a degree from the Higher Party School. In 1959 I went to work for the new newspaper 'Literaturni Novini'. I was once again secretary there and I worked there until 1964. Then I went to the publishing house 'Tehnika' where I worked until I retired. At all the places I had worked nobody treated me badly because I was a Jew except when we worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs from which we were fired for that reason. Not because we were Jews, but because we had relatives in a western country. We lived with my husband's parents. They observed some traditions, but we didn't and neither did our daughter. We observed very few of the rituals. We didn't pray, nor go to the synagogue. We married only before the registrar. We settled in our present home in 1968. My husband's parents lived in one of the rooms, my husband and I in the other and my daughter in the living-room. Six months after we moved, my father-in-law died and when my daughter got married she lived here with her husband.
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