Tag #153685 - Interview #102282 (Leo Lubich)

Both my father and mother had brothers and sisters. Of all of them, I only knew my father’s brother Boris. Uncle Boris took part in the revolution of 1917 2, the Civil War, and after the war he became an NKVD official 3. From the middle of the 1930s he was Deputy Minister of the NKVD of Udmurt Republic. He lived in the town of Izhevsk in the Urals. His wife Lena was Russian. Of course, Boris didn’t observe any Jewish traditions. Basically, before the Great Patriotic War 4 he stayed out of touch with his Jewish relatives.