My father's brother Jacob Voosiker (in the center) and his comrades Alexandr and Peter Terletskiys. The photo was taken in 1944 to be sent to my father. It is signed "To Zorka and his family". I have no information about Jacob's comrades.
My father's family was religious. My grandparents went to the synagogue and observed all Jewish traditions. They talked in Yiddish, but they spoke Russian to their children and grandchildren. They were so poor that they couldn't even dream of giving their children an education. The boys went to cheder because it was free. Jacob was born in 1914. He didn't observe any traditions after he had left his parents' home.
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. Their daughter Natasha and her family live in Kiev. Jacob and Nina died in the early 1990s.
