Michael Opas - [n.d.]
Family Life
Can you--what was your father's occupation?
My father was in the bakery business. He was a baker. Had his own bakery.
Mm-hm. What was the size of your family?
Quite large. My, my personal family?
Mm-hm.
Me, my wife and my, and my son.
And your, and your family you grew up with.
Yeah, I grew up with uh, I have three sisters and two more brothers.
Mm-hm.
They all disappeared.
Mm-hm.
One sister from all of us--and it was six of us--one sister survived. And uh, unfortunately passed away now nine years ago in Israel. But I had uh, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws. I had uncles, aunts, cousins. In the immediate family around sixty people. No one survived. One cousin survived in uh, a first cousin survived, he lives now in Florida. And then I have some second cousins, I mean, children of my cousins that live in Israel. I don't know many--I don't know of any, of any more survivors.
Can you describe your household as a child?
It was a very happy childhood, very happy. I was somewhat--my parents were well-to-do. Well, we had servants in the house and uh, and uh, it was always--I was uh, I was going to school. I finished high school in Poland.
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