Maria Komarovskaya’s brother, Iosif Komarovsky

My brother, Iosif Komarovsky, at the age of 3. The photo was made in 1923 in Oster. My brother was killed in 1940 during the Finnish war. My parents got married in 1919, and in April 1920 my elder brother Yosif Komarovsky was born. I was born in 1925. I had no more brothers or sisters. The very next year after I started to go to school, great famine began in Ukraine. My parents did their best to protect their children from starving. We did not have enough to eat, but we did not understand why. I remember that father got some food at his work. If he had a candy in his food "parcel" he kept it to give me. My elder brother Iosif also tried to treat me with any delicious stuff he could get. I loved my brother very much.