Tzur Moshe, 2016
After I got married, I moved to Tzur Moshe. I have been living in this house ever since.
I was born in Greece, in Thessaloniki, and my mother and father were… My mother was Julia and my father Itzhak and I have, or rather had, two sisters and one brother, Yvonne, Rachel and Avraam. I went to school, first to the Italian school and then to the Greek one. At home we spoke Ladino. At school we spoke either Italian or Greek.
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Here, we moved to Israel in 1945 and we were in… they brought us to the Beith Olim [the House of Immigrants] and after that I stayed with a family, with friends of ours. I stayed there until they built the houses for the Olei Yavan [the Greek Immigrants] and we moved there. Two years later I got married and I moved here to the moshav [a type of a cooperative agricultural community]. I met my husband in Tel Aviv, we were introduced by friends. I went with my mother and he was with his sister and they made us… they made a … But it was not matchmaking. It was love at first sight.
After I got married, I moved to Tzur Moshe. I have been living in this house ever since. We had chickens, we collected eggs and we weighed and divided into categories, small, larger and very large. We had vegetables, we had a lot to do here, we had cows, I learned how to… to milk a cow. I spoke Hebrew with my husband. I speak Ladino even now. I was speaking all the time, I was speaking with my mother in law, as well with everyone, whoever is willing, when we meet with friends who speak Ladino, I also speak. And then I watch on televisia (television in Hebrew), I watch the Spanish telenovelas and I understand it all.