Sarrah Muller’s niece Mania Shuster

Sarrah Muller’s niece Mania Shuster

My niece, Ena and Gershl Shusters' daughter - Mania Shuster. This photo was taken in Kamenets-Podolskiy in 1936, the girl is still under one year of age. She perished during a mass shooting in Kamenets-Podolskiy with all other relatives. Ena's husband Gershl kept this photo and after he died we kept it.

My sister Ena was born in 1913. My first childhood memories go back to our small two-bedroom apartment in the center of the town that we rented. Our family was very poor. One room was bigger, but the second one was dark and had no windows. The corridor served as a kitchen: there was a stove and a kerosene stove in it. In 1932 my sister Ena got married and her husband moved in with us. They lived in the dark room and we all plus their kids, who were born one after another, were gadding about in the bigger room.

So it happened that my parents and sisters stayed in the occupation: my parents, my sister Basia with her children Semyon, Israel, Sarrah and Shloime, sister Ena with her son and daughter Mania, my favorite, aunt Ita and uncle Gershl. According to local residents, during the first action in 1941 Ita, her husband and children, my sisters Basia and Ena with her son and little Mania were killed.

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