These are my maternal grandparents: Srul and Hava Orentlikher. This photo was taken in Kishinev in the 1900s.
This is my mother’s cousin sister Sonia Gerstein, nee Zilberman, with her older son Shmuel. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1922.
These are my parents Beila Molchanskaya, nee Orenthlikher, and Shlomo Molchanskiy. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1927.
These are my parents, Beila Molchanskaya and Shlomo Molchanskiy, with a group of friends in the Sobornyi Park in Kishinev. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1927, by a street photographer during their walk.
This is me with my parents Beila and Shlomo Molchanskiy. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1929.
This is me with my parents Shlomo Molchanskiy (sitting, 1st on the right) and Beila Molchanskaya (standing, 1st on the left) and their friends at the Sobornyi Park. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1930.
This is me at the age of four. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1933. When I was born in 1928, my parents rented an apartment in the house across the street from where my grandmother lived on the corner of Tsyrelson Lane and Oktavian Gog Street.
This is our family in the living room of our house. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1935. From left to right: I, my mother Beila Molchanskaya, our acquaintance Hana Leizerman, my aunt Sonia Gerstein, standing is grandmother Hava Orentlikher, sitting in the center is Haim Gerstein, my father’s friend Levental, a stranger, my father Shlomo Molchanskiy.
These are my paternal grandparents, Meir Molchanskiy and Haya Molchanskaya with their older son Haim’s family. This photo was taken in Dombroveni in 1937.
This is me with my parents Beila Molchanskaya and Shlomo Molchanskiy. This photo was taken in Kishinev, in 1937. At the age of six I went to a Romanian elementary school.
This is me with my father Shlomo Molchanskiy at the Budaki resort, today Primorskiy, Odessa region. This photo was taken in 1938. My father and I went there about three times: my mother wasn?t allowed to go to the sea.
This is my maternal grandmother Hava Orentlikher. This photo was taken in Paris in 1937. My grandmother was born in Bessarabia, in Kishinev, in 1878.
This is me, the 1st on the right in the lower row, sitting, with my group mates of the French department of Chernovtsy University. This photo was taken in Chernovtsy in 1946.
This is me, third from right, and my group at the parade on October Revolution Day, we were second year students. This photo was taken in Chernovtsy in 1947. There is a slogan behind us. It says ‘Under the banner of Lenin, under the leadership of Stalin’ in Ukrainian.
This is me, second from left, my husband Moisey Shpitalnik and my father Shlomo Molchanskiy. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1952.
This is me, second from left, and my husband Moisey Shpitalnik, third from left, during our tour of Pushkin’s places. This photo was taken in Mikhailovskoye in 1966.
This is me, my husband Moisey Shpitalnik and my mother Beila Molchanskaya. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1987. This was my mother’s last photo which had was taken on the 90th birthday of our family friend Zalman Goldstein.
This is me and my husband Moisey Shpitalnik. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 1997. This is the celebration of my 70th birthday at work in the Jewish library.
This is me and my husband Moisey Shpitalnik. This photo was taken in Kishinev in 2001. This is the celebration of memorable photographs.
Sarra Shpitalnik este o persoană inteligentă şi drăguță de statură medie. Ea are o voce joasă şi plăcută şi poartă părul legat în nod. În timpul discuției noastre ea mă privea atent prin ochelarii săi. Mi-a plăcut foarte mult să discut cu ea. Sarra e un povestitor minunat. Ea a răspuns cu plăcere la întrebările mele. Ea este o persoană foarte bine educată. Ea locuiește într-o jumătate de casă cu un singur etaj la Buiukani, o zonă cu vile private a Chișinăului. Are o mică grădină lângă casă şi câțiva copaci fructiferi, care au fost plantați de soțul ei Moisey Shpitalnik. Soțul Sarrei a decedat aproximativ un an în urmă, în anul 2003. Bianka, un câine mic şi draguț îi ține Sarrei companie. Câinele îi este total devotat stăpânei sale. Casa are două odăi şi o bucătărie. Una din camere este folosită în calitate de living. În această cameră este un dulap cu cărți, un pat mic şi o masă lângă geam. Mai este şi o colecție de păpuși în costume naționale pe care Sarra şi soțul ei le-au colectat şi le-au plasat în două standuri imense din sticlă plasate tot în această odaie. Sarra şi soțul ei le-au cumpărat pe unele în timpul călătoriilor, iar altele le-au fost oferite în dar de prietenii lor. Sarra mă servește cu cireșe dulci din grădina sa.
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