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I was born in 1917. My mother was very weak and sickly and had migraines. She hired a nanny to look after me. My nanny’s name was Anna Grigorenko. She was a Ukrainian woman. She spoke beautiful Ukrainian and sang Ukrainian songs. My mother and father spoke Yiddish. I picked up Yiddish and Ukrainian. Since Russian is spoken much in Kharkov I picked up Russian, too.
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Anna Gliena