Rita Simon as a young lady

This is Rita Simon, my cousin from Cernauti, when she was 18 years old. The picture was taken on the 4th June, 1937, in Cernauti.

My father had a brother in Cernauti. He was also Simon, but I don't remember his first name anymore. He was a couple years older than my father, so he was born around 1900, since my father was born in 1904. He was an accountant. He had a family, one of his daughters was called Rita Simon, and her brother was Doliu Simon. I don't know what happened to them. I think my father's brother died before we returned from deportation, and we didn't know anything about their family.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

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