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These are my paternal grandfather Julius Kann’s sisters: Anna and Minna Kann . The picture was taken in Tartu in the 1900s.
My grandfather had two sisters, Anna and Minna, and two brothers. I only knew one of them – David. After the revolution all my father’s kin happened to be in Soviet Russia and we stopped keeping in touch with them for a while. I cannot recall any information about my grandfather’s sisters and brother. But we were very close with the family of Grandfather’s brother David’s family. Of course, we renewed our relationship after 1940 when Estonia became Soviet. Earlier it was dangerous to keep in touch with relatives abroad as Estonia was bourgeois. That is why we did not even try to look for anybody.
