Hannah Vailer

This is my aunt, my mother's sister, Hanna Vailer, nee Gorovits-Vaisbrot. The photo was taken in Haifa in 1945. My maternal grandfather had two or three sons, and his daughter Mina from his first wife. His sons were lost during World War I and the Civil War. Two sons from his second wife also died during the Civil War, somewhere near Yekaterinoslav, as far as I remember from my mother's stories. Besides my mother, there was her older sister Hannah, and Klara, who was named Keila in Yiddish. In Israel she took on the name Hadassah and the pseudonym Israeli. She left for Israel in 1922. Hannah also left for Israel, in the 1930s.