Sonya Varenburg and Meyer Shubinsky

Sonya Varenburg and Meyer Shubinsky

These are my sister, Sonya Varenburg, nee Shubinskaya and my brother Meyer Shubinsky. The photo was taken in 1930 in Zvenigorodka. We were three children. I was born on 14th January 1907 and the eldest son; one year later, in 1908, my brother Meyer was born and in 1911 my sister Sonya, or Bidona followed. During the war my brother worked as a nurse. Then he moved, after Doctor Sigalov took him as his assistant. When World War II broke out, my brother had a special red paper in his military ticket, which meant that at the first call-up he should come to the military enlistment and registration committee. He went there before any call-up. He was assigned to a military unit on the second day of the war [see Great Patriotic War]. We never saw him again. Neighbors told us he had come to say goodbye, but we weren't home. In May 1941 he got married. His wife went into evacuation; she was a teacher. After returning from evacuation she fought with us for our apartment, so we didn't communicate with her much afterwards. I think she got married again. My sister Sonya worked at a sewing factory. Then she got married and worked as a manicurist at the same place where her husband worked. Then they moved to America. She has a daughter and grandchildren. She even has a great-granddaughter. Sonya recently celebrated her 90th birthday.
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