Fridrich and Vanya Nusan

This is a photo of my brother, Fridrich Avram Nussan, and his second wife Vanya. The photo was taken during the 1960s most probably in a photo studio in Sofia. Fridrich was diligent, strict and reserved. He had the gift of an artist. Very often, when Gizela and Lili brought patterns home, which they had to draw and design in accordance with their clients' bodies' dimensions, he used to help them. It was as early as then that he started revealing his designer capabilities. He graduated from the 'Hristo Botev' construction vocational school. It was because of these skills that he became a designer and later, a constructor, in a science institute. He has married twice. His first wife, Valka, was Bulgarian. He has a daughter, Nina, with her. He lived with Valka for ten years before they got divorced. Later he married a colleague of mine, Vanya, a midwife. I introduced them to one another. They liked each other and went to a sweet shop. They got married in 1965. Vanya also has a daughter from her first marriage. The two stepdaughters lived together with Vanya and Fridrich. Vanya actually raised Fridrich's daughter from his first marriage, who had never lived with her mother. Vanya was a very noble person, yet Fridrich also divorced her due to property arguments.