Engelina Goldentracht's family

My husband Michael Goldentracht and I (standing) my mother Lubov Stravets, my father's brother, Jacob Voosiker, and his wife Nina holding their daughter Natasha. My daughter Alla is standing next to Jacob. The photo was taken in Kiev in 1953. In April 1946 I met Michael Goldentracht at a party. We got married on 24th June 1946. We had a small wedding party with about 20 guests, my closest friends and relatives. After the wedding we began to live with my parents and brother. My husband was still a military doctor and I went to work at the polyclinic. In 1947 our daughter Alla was born. I quit work and stayed at home for two years. In November 1949 my husband got a job assignment in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka [over 12,000 km from Kiev], and we followed him there. I was missing my parents. At the beginning of March 1953 I went to Kiev. At the beginning of 1954 Michael came to meet me in Kiev, and we later moved to the town of Pavlovsk near Leningrad, where he got a new job assignment as a doctor in a military hospital. We lived in Pavlovsk until 1961. My father's brother Jacob entered the Faculty of Journalism at Kiev University after finishing the Rabfak. He proved to be a talented journalist. During the war he was a political officer at the front, and after the war he became a leading journalist with the Kiev newspaper Vecherniy Kiev. He married a Russian woman called Nina. Jacob and Nina died in the early 1990s. Their daughter Natasha and her family live in Kiev.