Meyer Goldstein's family

A family photo of 1935. Standing from left to right: my cousin Isaac - cadet of the military school; mother Sonya, me, Meyer Goldstein, as a student of the Odessa Teacher's Institute. Siting: aunt Fira Voskova, grandmother Feiga, aunt Ita Voskova (Zelikova). My mother was born in 1895, Ita was born in 1898. All the sisters received junior education only, while mother's brother Munya was a very gifted musician. Under the Soviet rule, my mother, her sisters Vekha and Golda worked in an artel of handicraftsmen as confectioners. Later, her sister Vekha married a worker of a printing plant and went to live with him in Cherkassy region. Prior to the war Golda left for Kiev and worked there in a newspaper. Ita lived in Korsun. Golda, my mother's youngest sister, had the best education. Prior to the war she lived in Kiev, was an active Komsomol member, worked in a Komsomol newspaper in Kiev. In evacuation she found herself in Sverdlovsk, caught cold and died there.