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Bronia's Life: 1921-1947

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

July 1941

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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