Vladimir Olgart's brother Mikhail Olgart and his schoolmate

My brother, Mikhail Olgart, and one of his schoolmates. The photo was taken during Mikhail's vacation in Skvyra in 1927. My brother came from Kiev to visit our parents.

My parents got married in 1904 and in 1908 my older brother Mikhail was born. He was named Moshe at birth. He completed 5 years of Russian secondary school. He decided to learn a profession. He was apprenticed to a locksmith who repaired clocks, sewing machines and bicycles. In 1926, when he turned 16, Mikhail moved to Kiev and became a locksmith apprentice at the Arsenal Plant [biggest military plant in Ukraine].

Mikhail married a woman from Kiev. She was a Jewish girl named Dusia. They had a son and a daughter. He was at the front. His family was in evacuation in Novosibirsk. After the war they lived in Kiev. Mikhail found a job at the barber's shop. He died in 1977 of a heart attack. His older son died in 1982. His daughter moved to Israel.