This photograph was taken in 1945 in Minsk after its liberation. At that time I worked in the Minsk executive committee.

But living in Minsk after the war was not possible for me. Walking along the streets of the city where my parents, my brother (and all my relatives) had been shot, was very hard. My mother’s sister, aunt Manya and her family, lived in Leningrad and survived the blockade.

So I arrived in Leningrad and entered the Stomatological School in 1945. And in 1946 I got married.