This is my father's mother Hanna Leibovich. The photograph was taken in Kiev in 1923.
My grandmother Hanna, my father's mother, was born in 1890. She didn't work before the Revolution. In the early 1920s she went to work at a factory and worked at the turning machine. My father's parents were religious. They went to synagogue and observed the traditional Jewish holidays at home. Nonetheless, they didn't follow Kashrut and worked on Saturday, as it was a workday at the factory. Besides, it wasn?t possible for Jewish people to be openly religious in Kiev in the early 1930s.
My father's parents were evacuated during the war to Tashkent. Both of them died in 1943.
Zinaida Leibovich's father's mother Hanna Leibovich
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