Larissa Khusid's grandmother Dora Ortenberg

Dora Ortenberg (maiden name - Korduner) my maternal grandmother, in a photo taken in Odessa in 1908. The Ortenberg family was not religious. Like her husband who was a man of the world, my grandmother Dora was a woman of the world. She even smoked long thin cigarettes. However, my mother told me that my grandmother never smoked on Saturdays. This was probably her tribute to the Jewish traditions. My grandmother Dora gave birth to seven children; she had a baby every two to two and a half years. My grandmother had a stroke and died on February 28, 1928.