Romania: Reb Menachem Mendel Sand #1- Family history, Vishnitzer Chasidim - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

I'm here with Rabba Mandal Sand. This program is called meaningful interviews which we talk to people who've had life experience and we'll share that life experience with us. So this is my cousin and I would like you to share with us your early memories. But before that, just give me a little family background of what you heard from your parents or your Zetas and Bubbas and then we'll go from there. Please, I don't exactly know what what background you want. I come my my mother's name was Bry Dolphin. Her maiden name Bry Dolphin. She was the fifth child of nine. Her parents were Mahendel after whom I'm named and her her name was Toybore my grandmother. Okay. They had nine children. Schol Esther, Miriam [Music] Rifu, right? [Music] Bry Mo and Yosula. How you remember the names? That's that's the nine. Okay. Those are the nine. If you want, I'll show you the picture of them. Okay. But right right now, let's let's Yeah, I saw the I saw the picture. Yeah. Now, he has it in his book. Now, one second. Um, where did they live? Do you Did the Which city Which village they came from? Raditz. Raditz. Roditz was in Romania in Suchava County. Sucha. Yeah, it could be. So you know what Sava is? Shots. Shots. Yeah. Right. The in 1928 Schllo Dolphin came to America. opened a store in Delhauszy, New Brunswick. In where? Delhauszy, New Brunswick. That's not That's not That's America. Canada. No. Canada. Canada. He came to Canada. Canada. Well, who said I You said America. You said America. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You meant Canada. No. Yeah. And he opened the store in there. Schlma Dolphin. the front of dolphin and he and he started pedaling. Right. He was to you again. What was he to you? He was the oldest uncle of my mother's brothers. Okay. He sold the store to his brother Moshe. Okay. And he went to Valdor Quebec and opened a store there. Okay. And it was called Dolphins. They were all called Dolphins. Okay. That's the only name they had, right? And they were clothing stores. Clothing man. They were all clothing stores. And they spelled it with an E. Right. Den Fen. Right. Now the where they were where they moved to there was a lot of Eden there. No, no, there was no Eden. No Ed Yeden was empty. Eden was in Montreal. There were Eden in Montreal, but they right but in the 30s even to Montreal then when Moa [Music] Dolphin came over to Canada, he bought the store in Delhausy from Schla. Okay. When Schllo went opened the store in Valdor. Yes, Busha Dalton was single. 2930. Uncle Morris as we called him, right? Wanted to get married. Moa Morris. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't have there were no choice. There were no there were no Jewish women. Yeah. So he wrote a letter to Isra to Rodith to my father mayor who had just married my mother Bry. Yeah. 1930 said come to Canada and I'll take you in for a partner. I want to go to Israel to find a wife. So my father and mother were given tickets and they came. They landed in Levis, Quebec in 1935. I was two years old. I was actually one and a half. One and a half or two years old. I was the second child. My mother had a girl before me. Her name was Shanika. Shanika. Shanika. Her name was Shandel. Shandel. That was a nickname. It was called Shani. Shani. Yeah. Yeah. Shi in Romanian they added a suffix ka ka. So everything was shulika. Shanika. Got it. They were met by my uncle Moshe who took them to Delhausy where he lived and gave they had they got an apartment above a store where they lived. They were married. Morris and Joe Yosul went to Israel. They came to Israel and they went in to eat to a Jewish restaurant that was owned by an apple bomb. He was a pac. He had a younger sister who was beautiful, my auntie Dena. She was waiting on the tables. Joe said to Morris, "Marry her or else I will. If you don't marry her, I will." So he took her and he married her. And Morris already had money because he had been in business in Canada, right? He went to and he bought a property. He brought a threefloor building. Okay. Sold it for him in in in this was in uh in in Canada. This is inlay. He bought it in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Isaac who came over after became a peddler, bought a horse, went around pedalling and made a lot of money from pedalling. Five years after he went back to Radvitz to visit his father, he came home into his father, opened his pockets, took a lot of money, and plopped it all on the table. And he says to my grandfather, Tatan, it's yours. He says to him, and the logger. I make I don't need your money. Yeah. A logger was a wooden. Yeah. The wood a woodlock. Yeah. Lumber. Yeah. Yeah. Lumber. In the meanwhile, the oldest daughter, Esther, married Israel Tenin House. They had four children, David, Dutu, Neti, Mosin, Mosku, and Shulika Shulabit. The second one was Schl had Arie, Shirley, Hilda, Mendy, and Buddy. Five children. Then came Miriam. She married [Music] Moer. Moer was a a London. What? What? Ask me what I mean. What do you mean? Usually London means a to Huh? He didn't make a living. Oh, London. He was He was a Tyra scholar who couldn't didn't make a living. Okay. They had two children. Mosceler and Auntie Miriam had two children. David Dutu and Men. They were supported their whole life by the brothers and sisters. I recall like today every month they came to my father and he took out money and he gave for Miriam auntie Clara married was uncle Jack's name Jack. Jack. No. Jack Hutman. Hutman. The Hutman. That small. He came from Right. He came from Sutra. Yeah. They were very wealthy. They had a store that sold glass. Okay. He stood in the store with a pot and people that came to buy put money into the pot. Into the pot and that's how they made a living. Auntie Clara married Uncle Jack. He had six children. Mie, Mendy, Monty, Harry, Molly, and Sammy. And Sammy. Molly was named Molly Mala after my late grandmother, my father's mother who had died. Right. So that's why she was named Mali. Mala. Yeah, I know all of them. And not only did I know them all, but we were all very, very close. I want to ask you a question for a second. Do you have any memories of in your of Romania? Do you remember streets? No. Nothing. Zero. A year old. It was a year old. A year old. Nine months. No, I I don't I don't remember anything. I remember stories. Right. Right. But your earliest memories of Canada. My mother and father were married in 1930. Right. My Zeta, my mother's mock father prepared the whole wedding, everything. And six weeks before the wedding, he dropped dead. He died. Died. Ask me what he died from. He died from an anahora. That's what they say. Yeah. That's what they said. But what was the medical condition? You don't know. When he dropped dead, they ran to get this woman who knew the Oh. to break an Anahora. And she brought she she lit the coals. Yeah. Didn't help. It didn't help. He died, right? My parents were married in 1930. There was a story you probably heard my de Mendel after who I'm named was in the first world war in 18. He left the wife and children in Rovitz. They came in 1916 to my grandmother and told her, "Your husband died." And they brought him they brought him his watch. And the guy says, "I took it from him while he was lying dead on the battlefield." My grandmother heard that. She ran. They were vision she ran to the vision and she said when do I start sitting sh vishna says you don't sit sh says why there's only one aid there's only one witness you need two witnesses right in order to determine something right dead so she didn't sit My Zade was under here and he was very well known. The moment that it happened, all the town started sending food to my grandmother. Mhm. She had a house full of kids. Nine kids, just lost her husband. She sent the monk to them. She sent it all back. She wouldn't take it. She says, "I have two hands." She started to take in laundry and the family helped with the laundry and made a living. That's how they made a living game.