Graduation form in Kirghizia school.

My graduating class from the Kirghizia School. You?ll find me, Larissa Khusid, in the top row, the 4th on the left (wearing a white beret). This photo was taken in Frunze in 1948. I studied at the governmental school #3 in Frunze. I still have the picture of our class at our prom party in 1943. After school I enrolled in the English department of the Pedagogical Institute. Simultaneously, I studied the history of music, music literature, harmony and solfeggio, and also took piano lessons. My teachers were professors at the Moscow Conservatory: Vladimir Vlasov, Vladimir Ferre and Michail Arkadievich Rauchverger. They taught me for free. My only payment to them was my love and admiration for them that never faded.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". 

Please contact collection [at] centropa.org (collection[at]centropa[dot]org).