Magda Frkalova with her mother, Maria Wohlsteinova, and her brother, Imrich Wohlstein

This is a photograph of me, my mother mother, Maria Wohlsteinova, and my brother, Imrich Wohlstein. The photo was taken in some Trnava studio and is from the beginning of the 1940s. My parents were named Maria Haasova and Viliam Wohlstein. They met at some ball in Topolcany. After a relatively short acquaintance, they were married in 1924. I think that it wasn't the best choice in their lives, because their marriage wasn't a very successful one. They used to argue, and we children were then very unhappy. Indeed, there were even times when my brother and I were quite desperate, and we were even thinking about whom we'd live with, if our parents happened to get divorced. My brother was four years younger than I, and he started with it. He was crying and said: ?Who will we go with? Where will we go when they get divorced?? It really marked our childhood quite a bit. I've got to say, that we weren't very happy. But in the end our parents didn't get divorced and remained together, until the Holocaust separated them. My mother was a housewife. I think that she was relatively satisfied with being at home, taking care of the household and raising the children. My father supported us by working as a superintendent at various farms.