Bella Kisselgof 's aunt, Luba Dohlzhanskaya,
her husband Aron Dohlzhansky and
their sons Ziama and Misha (Mosia, or Mihail) Dohlzhansky

A family portrait of my Aunt Luba Dohlzhankaya (center), her husband Aron Dohlzhansky, and their sons, Misha (Moisia, or Mihail) (right) and Ziama (left) Dohlzhansky, taken in Gorlovka in 1946. My Aunt Luba married Aron Dolzhansky, an engineer. Luba was a housewife. They had two children: Ziama, born in 1923, and Mosia (Mihail), born in 1925. When the Great Patriotic War began, Luba's husband and sons went to the front. Aron was summoned from Gorlovka to the war at the very beginning,. Ziama was summoned to the front from evacuation in Fergana at the end of 1941 and Misha - in 1943 when he was just 17. Ziama became a professional in the military. He studied at the Commandment Military College and as a military man, moved from one town to another. He went as far as Berlin and when the war was over he was only 20. Ziama stayed in the army after the war and worked as a professional military man. He got an assignment in Lvov, settled down there, and retired with the rank of colonel. In the late 1970s Ziama, his wife and their son moved to Israel. Ziama had a heart problem and couldn't get used to the climate there. He died soon after their move. Luba died in 1978. Mosia returned home after demobilization from the army in 1946. He passed exams for the 10th form of secondary school. He was very intelligent. He was educated at the Kharkov Engineering and Construction Institute and stayed to work in Kharkov afterwards. He got married there and had two sons. When he was 40, he drowned in the Donets River while swimming. His children live in Donetsk, but we are not in touch with each other.