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This is the first wife of my maternal grandfather, Alexander Ribush. She died of consumption in 1903, when my mother was born. I know almost nothing about her, not even her name. The photo was taken in Pskov in the early 1900s.
My grandma gave birth to eight children. I know the names of six of them: Berta, born in 1880, Abram, born in the 1910s, Daniyl, born in the 1900s Lazar, born in the 1890s, Rosa, born in the 1890s and Berta, my mum. Two children died of consumption at a very early age. Six of them survived, but their lives took a very different course.
