This is me and my aunt Ella Lat, my father's sister. This photo was taken in Riga in 1923. I am 3 months old.
I was born on 26 February 1923. I had a happy childhood. I had a Latvian nanny that spent a lot of time with me taking me for walks and entertaining me. She didn't allow other people even to look at me, she protected me from the evil eye.
Ella was born in 1891 in Ionishkis, Lithuania [then part of Russia]. She finished a Russian school and got married in Riga. Her husband was a hardworking man. They worked at a store and got rich soon. They had a nice apartment not far from where we lived. As all the other our relatives they visited us very often - on Sabbath and all the Jewish and family holydays. Aunt Ella had two children: daughter Rebecca and son David. Their whole family perished in the ghetto in Riga.
