Tag #150409 - Interview #94447 (Larisa Radomyselskaya)

My grandmother was very concerned that my father was single. She kept telling him that he needed to get married and that I needed a mother and that he was too young to be living alone. My grandmother introduced my father to her niece, her sister Sonia’s daughter Ghita. Ghita was my mother’s cousin. Her surname in marriage was Wainshtein. Ghita’s husband perished in Sevastopol on the first days of the war. Ghita’s son Edward was born in March 1941. Ghita was in evacuation in the Ural and from there she moved to Kharkov. My father and Ghita registered their marriage in a registry office and Ghita and her son came to live with us.