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