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I did not have any brothers or sisters, but I had a lot of cousins in Russia and France. I loved them as my brothers and sisters. I had four cousins in France – two girls and two boys: Vilgemina Kagan, nee Rosendorf, the daughter of Aunt Maria, who perished in a concentration camp. Victor Upstein, Aunt Sarah’s son, born in 1914 and Uncle Grigoriy’s children Renata Geftman born in 1916 and Leonid Geftman, born in 1912. They all emigrated from Russia in childhood, but they kept in touch with Mother and me.
We kept on writing each other even during the Great Patriotic War, after the grandparents’ and parents’ death. They were our consolation in the hardest times, as we knew they were prosperous. Mother did not receive letters at home. She went to the post office and received mail post restante. At that time it was dangerous to correspond with relatives abroad [11]. We did not write about our hardship. The letters were concise and said things like: ‘we are fine.
We kept on writing each other even during the Great Patriotic War, after the grandparents’ and parents’ death. They were our consolation in the hardest times, as we knew they were prosperous. Mother did not receive letters at home. She went to the post office and received mail post restante. At that time it was dangerous to correspond with relatives abroad [11]. We did not write about our hardship. The letters were concise and said things like: ‘we are fine.
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Russia
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Tamara-Alexandra Goldenberg