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My great grandfather, and my great great grandfather and grandmother back in the Pale of Settlement
My great grandmother’s relatives from back in Luna Voda, (most likely murdered during the Holocaust). I need to go through the Yiddish with a dictionary
My great grandfather with a violin he made of wooden window blinds
A new year’s card sent by one Sady Scherman
The wooden synagogue in Volkavisk, my great grandfather’s hometown. Volkavisk was the place where he joined the Bund
Hymie and Berthe Goldbaum, partners on a farm with my great grandfather. Sam was a moral vegetarian and pacifist.
The greats are out of order here

Left- great great great grandparents

Right- great great grandfather
My great grandparents Sam and Rose - they must have been newlyweds
How can you comprehend the faces of your past
A long ago cousin (my great grandfather’s niece), Vivian Lush. She was a sculptor.
My mother has shoe boxes of these photos. We’re so lucky to be able to see what our family looked like over a hundred years into the past
My great grandfather and his sister as children in Volkavisk
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