עיסוק ופרנסה של המשפחה בעירק ובישראל

My mother used to embroider…dresses for brides. My father used to sell fabric. My grandfather had a gold shop. And however it was, that’s how they used to support themselves. One night, my mother was asleep, and (two women) came wanting (to steal) a bracelet from her. And she said to the other, “remove the blanket, and look.” (The other woman) said “look, I removed the blanket. There is nothing on her leg.” (The first woman) replied, “cover her, and lets return back.” And my mother woke up in the morning, and told her mother (the story). (My mother) told her, “mother, mother, this is the story, and this is the story”. (My grandmother) said to her, “no! Don’t get inside your own head. You dreamed a dream.” My mother did not work; she stayed home. My father was given a job from the employment bureau. He was a manager of Ilanot, and he was responsible for workers. And for a long time, really, many years. He worked in Ilanot for a long time, until the trees for planting were no more. They said to him, “there is no work anymore”. He was at home for a while, (and then) went once again to the employment bureau. They said to him, “there is no work.”. He said to them “I have nine children at home”. There were nine children, and so on. So until…he told him, “I don’t have…we don’t have work”. I used to return from school and wash stairs and sponge (wash) the house so I could bring (home) money for my mother and father…so we would have something to live on and eat day to day. And this (continued) until…they gave my dad a vegetable shop, and by then we were getting by, thank G-d. Praised be G-d. He would sell (vegetables), (and) the remaining things we would eat at home. In the holiday we would go go out and go pick oranges, and in the afternoon we would go to the packing house, (and) pack the oranges, (and) they (would) send it overseas. A packing house. And when the orange packing house was finished, we would go to Even Yehuda to pick flowers. Flowers - it’s called “flowers”. From there, we would go to do deliveries overseas of flowers. Until I got married (this continued). Then I stopped working.