Photograph of Pasha Aliakseyeva with two friends at a military hospital where she worked in Minsk, 2000.
Photograph of Simon Mensher with his family, in Chicago, IL, c. 1990s.
I came to Chicago from Moscow. I lived my entire adult life in Chicago, but my roots are in Byelorussia. All the relatives on my
My family’s evacuation during the first days of the Great Patriotic War was probably not much different than the evacuation stories of the most Soviet
Before the war my grandfather, Iosif Shmuel Pikus, his wife, and their three children (it was his second marriage) lived in the small town of
My paternal grandmother, Dvoira Sokolovskaya, had nine children—six boys and three girls. The accompanying photo shows her with some of them. When the war began
In 1931, my father’s family, which included Grandfather Tzal, Grandmother Shlima, Uncle Abraham, and my father, Senya, moved to Kiev, Ukraine. They lived at 116
Before the war, our family lived in the small town of Baranovka in the Zhitomir Region. When the Great Patriotic War started, the Germans drove
Boris, Ilya, and Tania Vainerman, Leningrad, U.S.S.R., c. 1984. IHMEC: courtesy of the Mednick family. Soviet Jewry After the Holocaust The trauma of the Holocaust
