April 22, 1921
Born Sarny, Poland
1938-39
Design school, Warsaw
Home for summer break when war starts
August 24, 1939
Treaty of Non-Aggression Soviets occupy Sarny
Sept-Dec 1934
Boarding student in Rivne
September 1, 1939
First German bombs fall on Warsaw
July 5, 1941
Germans occupy Sarny
July 1941
Left Sarny with family, days ahead of German army
Arrived in Kiev, Aunt Basia evacuated; barge escape
1939-1941
Returned to high school in Sarny for Russian credentials
September 19, 1941
Germans occupy Kiev
September 29-30, 1941
34,000 Jews massacred in Babi Yar
August 27-28, 1942
Germans liquidate Sarny
November 6, 1943
Soviet army liberates Kiev
1942-44
Medical School
Yerevan, Armenia
January 11, 1944
Soviets return to Sarny
May 1945
Lublin Poland
October 14, 1945 Married
June 1947
Arrive NY, Marine Marlin
Fall 1944
Medical school in Kiev
1946-47 Frieman DP Camp Munich Germany
Annette born July 25, 1946
Spring 1947
Leaving Munich
Ship manifest
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