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Boris Zauer
This photo of my grandson, Boris, was taken in the hostel of Tartu University in 1991. Boris studied at the university's Faculty of Medicine. He and his Jewish friends dreamed about Israel. We began to obtain the documents necessary to emigrate. But Fate managed otherwise. During the Chernobyl accident, Boris served in the Soviet Army not far from Chernobyl. Some years later, his health started to deteriorate and we lost him in 1992. It was a very terrible blow for us. Soon after that, Anatoly had a heart attack. Our move to Israel was canceled. His sister, Anna, took a correspondence course at the Jewish University in Moscow for two years. She left for Israel in 1997. She married a French Jew. Anna is a nurse, and she lives and works in Jerusalem.

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