Grandparents' Life Together
How did Emma and Mendel meet?
At the local dance-in-the-park.
How many Soloveychiks are there in our family?
13.
What was Mendel's first language?
Yiddish.
How many siblings does Emma have?
Two.
What is the farthest U.S. state (from Illinois) that Mendel and Emma have visited?
Alaska.
How old were Mendel and Emma when they met?
18 & 19 years old.
How many of their children's & grandchildren's Bar/Bat Mitzvahs & weddings have Mendel and Emma attended (so far)?
7.
Kaunus, Lithuania.
What is Emma's favorite way to care for her grandchildren?
To feed them.
How many foreign countries did Emma & Mendel visit while living in the Soviet Union?
The legal wait time to get married was 3 months. What time did Emma arrange with the officials instead?
4 days.
How many languages do the Soloveychiks speak?
How old was Emma when she became a grandma?
51.
What was Mendel and Emma's first trip abroad?
Czechoslovakia.
For how many years did Mendel & Emma know each other before they got married?
5 years.
In how many cities have Emma, Mendel, and their children lived in together?
Two.
What was Mendel's first car?
Cooking/baking, drawing, sewing, dried flower art.
What year did they first see Lake Michigan?
1993.
Where was their Chuppah?
Orsha.
How many people were at Mendel and Emma's wedding?
40 people.
How many colleges did Mendel attend?
Three.
What year did Emma move to Kuibyshev?
1962.
How many cruises have Emma and Mendel been on?
We think four.