This is my mother's friend Sonia, who was killed in Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941. This photograph was made in September 1940. This picture was taken before my mother moved to Kiev, after her marriage, and her friend gave her this picture as a keepsake.
My mother had quite a few friends - both Russian and Jewish. Her Jewish friends Genia and Donia (I don't know their last names) were not evacuated during the war and were killed. Donia perished in Lvov and Genechka - in Kamenets-Podolsk. Sonia also was killed in Kamenets-Podolsk.
Zinaida Leibovich's mother's friend Sonia
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