The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

On vacation
Irina Soboleva-Ginsburg
Photo taken in: Sevastopol, 1927
Interviewer: Ella Orlikova
My mother, Judith Begam. She went to the seashore on
her vacation every summer. My mother was a pretty girl
and always had a number of admirers. She had her first
romance when her family was living in Losinustrovskoye.
They had a tenant, a poor student, who fell in love with
her. He proposed to her, but my mother’s father said,
“Are you out of your mind? Do you really want to marry
this hobo?” This poor young man happened to be Marc
Chagall. Then they took different roads.
Mikhail Gauzner
Photo taken in: Odessa, 1940
Interviewer: Alexandr Beiderman
Me and my mother, Riva Gauzner, in the dining hall of the recreation
center in Arcadia. My mother is first from the right at the front table,
and I am sitting next to her. This was before the Second World War, in
the summer of 1940, when my mother and I went on vacation to the
Arcadia recreation center in Odessa, but I do not remember much
about it. I was only four years old at the time.
Evgenia Gendler
Photo taken in: Anapa, 1961
Interviewer: Ella Levitskaya
My daughter, Victoria, on the beach in
summer. We went on tours to different
places around the USSR, often traveling
with our children to the Crimea and the
Caucasus Mountains on vacation. Our
children liked swimming in the sea and we
enjoyed our time together. Sometimes
we spent vacations with our friends.
When our children grew up and had other
things to do, my husband and I went to
recreation centers in Subcarpathia.
Abram Bashmet
Photo taken in: Khust, 1959
Interviewer: Zhanna Litinskaya
My wife Maya with our sons Yuriy (left) and
Yevgeniy (right) on vacation. We took our boys
to the seashore every summer. Though they are
different, they have always been close to one
another. They went to pioneer camps together
every summer and played in bands. Music tied
them together. My sons were raised knowing their
Jewish spirit.
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