Asia Redko

This is my younger sister Asia Redko. She sent this photo to me in Germany, when I served in the army there after the war. The photo is signed on the back with the words: 'For the good and long memory to my beloved older brother from your younger sister Asia. See you soon. 23 March 1946. Kiev'. My youngest sister Asia was born in 1926. She finished the school of assistant doctors in evacuation during World War II and worked as an assistant doctor in the polyclinic. She fell ill with tuberculosis in the evacuation. There was no medication and life was full of hardships and her disease progressed. In 1956 tragedy struck our family. My younger sister Asia died from tuberculosis. She was only 30 years old. We buried Asia in the Jewish sector of the Berkovets town cemetery in Kiev.