This is my mother Dora Rozenberg with her younger brother. This photo was taken in Odessa in 1906.
My mother Dora Rahman was born in 1897 in Konstantinovka town of Poltava province. She graduated from a private grammar school for girls in Yelisavetgrad. Shortly before the October revolution her family moved to Odessa. There she was a member of the underground association of young Bolsheviks of Odessa for some time, as a result of her and her brother's common enthusiasm for revolutionary ideas. Once she was supposed to undertake a task with an underground group, but was late for their meeting at their secret address. There was an arrest that morning, and all the young revolutionaries were shot shortly afterwards.
My mother's younger brother, whose name I've forgotten, unfortunately, was born in 1899. Right after finishing grammar school he was carried away by revolutionary ideas to such an extent that he found himself in a combat unit of the Red army. During the Civil War in 1919 his combat unit was involved in the suppression of an uprising of German colonists in Lustdorf and was killed.
