Remma Radinskaya living in Dnepropetrovsk gave the photographs of her family to the National museum of Holocaust history in Ukraine Tkuma. She said: “We are presenting you these photographs with all our heart to perpetuate the memory”.

One picture shows Remma with father Isaac and mother Raisa, another – Remma with grandfather Abram and the third – Remma herself. Photographs were made in prewar period when Gershbert family – Isaac, Raisa and Remma – lived in Mogilyev-Podol’sk city. During Nazi occupation they managed to evacuate in Chelyabinsk the city where their father brought securities of the organization where he worked. Then Isaac left to battle-front. And where were the photographs? They were kept with Remma grandparents: Shakhna and El’ka. El’ka clasped them to her bosom mincing behind Shakhna who was drawn to execution. Nazi thrown them to deep ditch where they gasped to death.   And the photographs scattered in the air. A neighbor from their village who knew this family and their children well found them covered with snow.  When Raisa with her daughter returned back from evacuation and Isaak returned from battle-front, their neighbor gave them saved relics. The events took place in Geisin, a town in Vinnitsa region where Nazi held the first action of mass destruction of Jewish population in 1941.

Alla Farimets,

coordinator of museum programs of Tkuma Center