Bulgaria, Photograph of Boco Moshe Niniu (father of the submitter, Avraham Niniu) at labor in the Amal Battalions (at left), with other laborers, 1942-1944.

Albert Avraham Niniu, the younger brother of Boco Moshe, also appears in the photograph (at right). In the background are the residential buildings of the labor battalions. Avraham Niniu, the submitter, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1946; he lives today on Moshav Ginaton. His father - Boco Moshe Niniu, was born in Bulgaria in 1907. Boco Moshe had two brothers and two sisters; his parents were his father Visotz, born circa 1880; his father's mother was Regina Rivka. Boco Moshe's mother was Sharona (Abramov) Niniu, born in Bulgaria in 1906. Sharona had four siblings; her parents were Avraham Abramov (the submitter is named after him) and Rosa. Sharona's brother Victor was born at home in Bulgaria in 1932. Boco Moshe and Sharona married in 1929 and purchased a home in Sofia on Opaltznska (?) Street, no. 16. (The house was destroyed in the early 21st century during the development of an infrastructure for a subway train. A photograph of the home was sent to Victor [her brother] by a childhood friend of his from Bulgaria, as a memento before its destruction.) Boco Moshe worked in his profession as a hairdresser in a large hairdressing shop in Sofia, named "Miss Bulgaria", which was located on Goldstone Street (in a central area). Sharona was a seamstress and worked in a factory. Victor studied in a public school until the war and, after the halting of his studies for two years, he resumed his studies and worked in the field of electronics and electricity with the owner of a workshop.