Roman Barskiy's mother Bertha Kazakova

My mother Bertha Kazakova in Kharkov in 1933. The Kazakovs had two daughters. The older daughter died in her infancy. The second daughter, Bertha, born in 1909, was my mother. My mother finished labor school in Lubny in 1928. She was a typist. Later she left for Kharkov. Kharkov was the capital of Ukraine until 1934. My mother got a worked as a typist at some company. In Kharkov she met her future husband.

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