Luba Elbaum - January 20, 1982
Life in Minkowice Before the War
Okay. Um, do you remember--what do you remember about your town that you lived in? Do you remember...
My town was a small town. When I grew up I was 'til--when I grew up in '38, 1938 because '39 was the war. 1938 I left to Lublin.
Okay.
I left to Lublin. I was with my uncle in Lublin.
You weren't living with your parents?
For a year, '38, '39. My mother's brother--I went to Lublin.
Okay, so your parents stayed where?
In Minkowice. My parents stay in Minkowice.
I see. And, uh...
My father was, my father was, I mean uh, having a fruit store. Fruit. He was having business in fruits.
Ah, like a grocery store, a little.
No he was, I mean, we were buying big, big--like I mean. How you call it here? I forgot here, how you call here--business and we were handle 'em in Lublin--in stores, you know. The fruit store.
Mm-hm.
And we had a little farm too.
Oh, you had a little farm. Where your parents lived they had a little farm.
Yeah.
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