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Max Smertenko, my Uncle, my mother's brother and Ilia, his son, my cousin. Photo made in Kiev in 1910.
We were in the closest touch with my mother's older brother and my Uncle Max Smertenko until he died in 1967. We were also in touch with his family. Uncle Max had two sons: the older one was Ilia (Eleh) and the younger one was Semyon.
