The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

synagogue according to Jewish law and registered as a married couple in the books of the Jewish community. This time Joya succeeded to get a fabric for me and so I wore a green dress to the event which she added a little festive touch to the occasion. During this period, food allowance slips were distributed. The amount of grain allowance for flour was limited and smaller than the quantity required. The flour slip allowance was handed over to the bakery, and we went every day to receive it as a loaf of bread baked for us. As a payment the bakery used to take from us a certain percentage of the flour. After my marriage to Leon, I moved to the same house where his brothers lived, his wife and their daughter Nada. My husband had two older brothers and a younger sister. The eldest brother, Moritz, left for France before the war and during the period of the war he lived in León in France and worked there as a tailor. Brother Binko worked as a bookkeeper and my sister-in-law Rozika was a partisan and at the end of the war she served as a soldier in the Tito army and lived outside Sarajevo. Leon worked as a tailor and I worked as a saleswoman at a department store, and on July 5 th 1946, our son Samuel (Sami) was born, named after Samuel, Leon’s father. The great joy of his birth was accompanied by sadness at my parents and about Leon's parents who didn't get to know him. Two months later, Nada got a brother named Yossi, and because Joya had no milk to breastfeed I nursed my son and Yossi too. The Abinun Family

I (to the right) in the department store, in 1946

I became a mother of only nineteen. I knew nothing and there was no one to guide me on how to diaper and care for the baby. After the birth I spent four days in the hospital after which I returned home. I could have stayed three more days, but the hospital wanted to give me another woman to share the bed with me, head to legs, so I decided to leave. In those

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