These are my parents Sophia and Mordko Birman with my daughter Yekaterina Cherniak. This photo was taken in Odessa in 1950.
My parents and I returned to Odessa in 1944. There were other tenants in our apartment. We went to court. We felt anti-Semitic attitude toward us. Since my mother and father were members of the party since 1919 and they wrote a complaint to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine they managed to obtain a residential permit for us to live in Odessa. They returned one room to us. The judge said: 'This is sufficient for three people'. My brother was at the front. I didn't work at first. I donated blood and received a food package and a meal for it. My mother began to work in the city finance department and father soon got a job of inspector in savings-bank.
My daughter Yekaterina was born in Odessa in 1946.