THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

KASTRATI - large and educated family
•This family, trying to earn a living through honest work, did not neglect the education of its younger generations. From an early
age, some of the young people in this family were on their way to school. Adem Kastrati spent his childhood in his hometown,
surviving several different political regimes of the time. His birthplace, Karacheva, like the whole of Kosovo, was under the
regime of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Versailles, then for a time under the Bulgarian and Italian occupiers. This was the time
when within the Kastrati family, a great desire and interest for education arose. The first educated people of Adem Kastrati's
family were his uncle, Tefiku and his father's cousin, Ibrahimi, who had been educated since the time of the Yugoslav
Kingdom . Then, the path of schooling was continued by Adem's sister, Nazmije Reka-Kastrati (mother of Prof. Dr. Blerim Reka ,
and speaker Drita Reka-Gërmizaj) who started working as a teacher in 1947. This path was later followed by others. According to
Adem's autobiographical notes, it is learned that his closest family in Upper Karachevountil recently, only his stepfather's brother,
Sabriu, remained with his immediate family, while other members of the Kastrati family moved
to Gjilan , Ferizaj , Prishtina , Gjakova , and elsewhere. While of them, only Ademi chose Skopje to live forever, where he started
his family with his wife Lemanen, leaving behind three children: sons, Artan, Ardian and daughter, Artiana.