Raissa Yasvoina's mother Maria Minskovskaya and her aunts Rosa and Vera

Sitting is my mother's sister Rosa. She moved to Canada in 1919. She is holding her child. Standing on the right is my mother's sister Vera Golfeld (nee Minkovskaya), next to her is my mother Maria Minkovskaya. Photo made in Kiev around 1912. This is my Aunt Vera Golfeld. She died in 1975. My mother's sister Vera was born in 1891. Her Jewish name was Dvoira. After my grandmother died Vera went to the family of some relatives that gave her good education. She finished school, spoke and wrote in Russian well and knew French a little. Vera never worked. I know very little about this period of my mother's life. My mother and Aunt Vera told me about big pogroms in Kiev in 1910. The two girls left Kiev and got to Chernobyl. Some Ukrainian acquaintances of Luba lived there and my mother and Aunt Vera waited there until the situation in Kiev calmed down.