PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE FAMILY OF MRS GOLDSTONE

Mrs. Goldstone's father Julius Moldauer (written Daver on some official forms) was born in Farastow, Galalicia in 1878. He studied tailoring in Vienna and got awarded diplomas for tailoring and designing and cutting. When he first came to England he settled in Liverpool and then moved to London. He came to Manchester with his wife Liba (nee Lipschitz) during World War I (he'd met her in Liverpool) and they lived with relatives in Carter Street. Then he got a house in Elizabeth Street opposite Rydal Mount Synagogue, a bedroom of this house he used as his tailor's workshop. He employed a presser and the donor and her mother used to help out in the business.

The donor's mother (born 1887) was one of 5 children, she had 3 brothers and a sister. One brother and her sister stayed in Russia with their father (their mother had died before Liba Lipschitz left Russia). The donor's mother used to send parcels of food and clothing to her family in Russia. Mrs. Goldstone remembers the address as: Ulitza 62, Gored Aptomofsk. The donor's mother had 2 brothers, Eli and Morris who also came to England. Eli Lipschitz was a trouser maker, he went to live in Leeds and then moved to Dublin. Morris was at various times a property owner, a chip shop and army and navy stores' proprietor. He changed his surname to Lipson and then Lee.

The donor's husband, Harry Goldstone, was born in 1910. His father Isaac served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I. He was wounded in France and hospitalised, in hospital he worked at making gollywogs from wool. The family lived in Arm Street, Lower Broughton and they attended Cambridge Street Synagogue. By trade Isaac Goldstone was a picture faker. He'd go round knocking on doors getting people to give him photographs which he'd get enlarged and coloured. He used to take these photograph to Goodman's on Great Ducie Street and Progress Studios on Cheetham Hill Road.

The donor and her husband Harry Goldstone went out to Colombia in early 1937. Harry Goldstone was in the waterproofing business in Manchester and he was invited to come and manage the first weatherwear factory in South America, a factory owned by a Zurich company called Rospolco. There job was to teach the local inhabitants how to make weatherwear. Mrs. Goldstone took ill however, the climate disagreed with her, and so they returned to England later in 1937.