These are my paternal grandparents, Samuel Zelbert and grandmother Zelbert. I do not know her name. The picture was made in Berdyansk in 1900.

Unfortunately, there is nothing I can say about my paternal grandparents. They died at a young age, when father was a kid. Father did not tell me much about his childhood. I do not know what grandfather did for a living. Grandmother was most likely a housewife like most married Jewish women. They lived in the town of Berdyansk, on the shore of the Sea of Azov, about 700 km away from Kiev. There were five children in the family: a daughter named Rena, who was the eldest, and four sons: Markus, Isaac, Haim, and my father Moses. Father was the youngest child in the family. He was born in 1892.