Inessa Vitkina, her sister Lidia and Aunt Leya
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My sister Lidia and Aunt Leya and I, Inessa Vitkina.
When our Aunt came to live with us she was given a separate room. With Aunt Leya's arrival my sister and I became close with her.
The Soviet Union agreed to accept my aunt under condition that she would go to Birobijan . In 1934 Aunt Leya left Lithuania for Birobijan. Photo # 4 She lived there for a year and in 1935 se moved in with us in Grozny. She lived with us her whole life and we were her only family. My aunt was an accountant. During the war she evacuated to Stalinabad with us and stayed with us after the war. Aunt Leya died in 1973 in Chernovtsy. She died in her sleep. She was buried at the Jewish cemetery in Chernovtsy.
