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My father’s younger brother Zinoviy, born in 1907, joined the Communist Party and held official party and trade union posts. In 1937, during the period of Stalin’s arrests [4] he was arrested in his office of Chairman of the regional trade union committee of Mogilyov. His wife Lisa was also expelled from the party. They had no children. Only after the 20th Congress of the communist Party [5] Zinoviy Lerman was rehabilitated [6] and we got to know that he had died in a Stalin’s camp in Magadan in 1942. Lisa didn’t remarry. When in the 1950s she got an offer to resume her membership in the party after her husband’s rehabilitation Lisa refused. Lisa died in the 1980s.
My father’s parents Revekka and Gershl had three sons for a long time before they got a daughter. So, the sons could do any work about the house. So, my father could do a chicken or fish and could do many things about the house. His mother taught him to do it. In 1924 Revekka’s daughter Zina was born. Zina also perished in Mogilyov along with grandfather Gershl, her father, in 1941.
My father’s parents Revekka and Gershl had three sons for a long time before they got a daughter. So, the sons could do any work about the house. So, my father could do a chicken or fish and could do many things about the house. His mother taught him to do it. In 1924 Revekka’s daughter Zina was born. Zina also perished in Mogilyov along with grandfather Gershl, her father, in 1941.
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Isabella Karanchuk