Boris Kolker Transcript
Soviet Jewish Oral History Project Western Reserve Historical Society Interviewee: Boris Kolker Interviewer: Svetlana Kurinsky Date of interview: August 27, 2014 Location of interview: 6755 Mayfield Road, Mayfield Heights Svetlana Kurinsky: Today is August 26th of 2014. My name is Svetlana Kurinsky. I am at the home of Boris and Esther Kolker. Thank you very much Boris to be with me today and to give your history. Let’s begin the interview. Could you please introduce yourself? [Russian speech] Boris Kolker: Hello Svetlana. My name is Boris Kolker, and…I was born on July 15th in 1939 in Tiraspol, Moldova in the Soviet Union. Now it is the capital of Transnistria. We arrived in Cleveland on June 10th, 1993, and finally our family reunited here. We came here from Ural Mountains, and our daughter started in Moscow. She was married there, and she remained in Moscow. Here it’s only our family, my wife Esther Kolker, daughter Isabella Blyumin (Kolker), son-in-law, Ilya, or Leo Blyumin, and grandchildren, Alex and Eugene, and finally our two great grandchildren, Adam and Matthew. Currently I am retired. Here in Cleveland I worked as office manager at the company Magic Micro Computers, and also as a freelance translator. For higher education, Moldavian State University in Kishinev and I have Ph.D. in linguistics from Institute in Linguistics at Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow. SK: Wow. Alright, can you tell us about your life in the, you know, Moldova when you were young, about your family? BK: Yes…my parents came to Kishinev in 1940 when it was added to Soviet Union.
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