My sister Manya.
My younger sister Manya was born in Medvin in 1904. She finished Russian grammar school in Korsun, rabfak (trade school), and graduated from the University in Kiev. She was a teacher of mathematics at a secondary school. She was married, but not for long. She divorced her husband. I don't remember him and can't say anything about him. In mid 1930s her daughter Ella was born. My mother was raising the girl (we lived together in the same apartment in Kiev) and Manya could have her free time to read after she came back from work. During the war of 1941-1945 Manya and her daughter were in evacuation in Alma-Ata. After the war they returned to Kiev and are living there now.
Abram Karmazin’s sister Manya
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