Adela Jawetz with her family

This is a photo of my mother Adela, my father Leon, my sister Lusia and two of my mother's sisters with their husbands. The photo was taken in 1929 in Hlyboka. My mother was born on 5th February 1905, in Hlyboka. During World War I she was in Vienna with her parents, and she went to school there. She was ten or twelve years old then. They took refuge there from Hlyboka. I don't know why they chose Vienna and I don't know what they did there for a living. Back then only my mother, Manea and Rosa had been born. Manea was married to David Landberg, who worked as a clerk at CFR: 'Caile Ferate Romane', 'The Romanian Railway Company'. They had two sons: Leopold and Heine. Manea and Heine were shot by Romanian soldiers in Hlyboka at the beginning of the war, around July 1941. They hid in the cornfield, and when Heine ran away they caught him and shot him on the spot. Leopold was deported from Hlyboka and died in Transnistria. I was very fond of him. David was taken to Siberia. He's the only one left from the family. After he was imprisoned, he was drafted into the Russian army and he fought in both Japan and Germany. I remember he walked with a club, because of a leg injury. My father was born in Dymka on 30th January 1899. He graduated from high school, and during World War I he served in the army under Austro-Hungary, and he was in Czechoslovakia. He learned to be a surgeon's assistant in the army. My parents got married in 1923. They had a religious wedding at the synagogue in Hlyboka. It certainly wasn't an arranged marriage. My parents dressed according to the fashion, especially my mother who cared about fashion. Lusia, my sister, was born on 23rd September 1924, in Hlyboka. I was born on 29th August 1930, also in Hlyboka.