Lev Drobyazko's uncle, mother's brother Isaac Vaisblat.

My uncle, Isaac Vaisblat, my mother's brother. He was born in 1903 in Kiev. The photo was taken in 1941 in Kiev. There was one more son, Isaac, who attended Kheder, secondary school, and graduated from the Dental Department of the Medical Institute - this was already a tradition in the family. Isaac became a dentist in Kiev's Military Hospital. He spent the war years as a military doctor. After the war he worked in Kiev, becoming renowned and loved by his patients. He died in 1996 at the age of 93, having seen the death of all of his many brothers and sisters. His wife, Maria Yefimovna Kats, united the line of Vaisblat with the line of Brodsky. Maria was a relative of the famous Brodsky who was a sugar plant owner, and she was certainly a dentist. Moreover, the son of Isaac and Maria, who was born in 1925, right after the death of Rabbi Nukhim Vaisblat and was named after him, also became a dentist.

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