[T1S1] Respondent provides background information: father born in Minsk, mother born in Bialystok, gives names: Samuel and Shirley Blumstein, married 1929, separated 1932. Respondent mentions his trip to Bialystok; 1998, comments on trip: now industrial town; notes father in real estate at time of separation, mother worked in bakery, lived with maternal grandparents, gives names and describes various moves in Bronx, NY. Respondent notes father awkward in social situations; has little knowledge of father's family, reflects on mother's devotion to Respondent; attended PS 47 in Bronx and Bronx High School of Science; recounts father's financial problems, mother never remarried; saw very little of father: no financial support. Respondent describes managing father's slum property after father suffered stroke; comments on mother's death: 1986; reflects on unpleasant family relationships and mother's hardships, describes summer at Workman's Circle camp.
