Bronislawa Peisakhova, and Boris, Dmitry and Arkady Peisakhov

Family of my sister Bebah Braginskaya. From right to left: her husband Ber Peisakhov, their son Dmitry Peisakhov (1 year old), Boris' brother Arkady Peisakhov, my sister Bebah (Bronislawa). The photo was taken in 1947 in Kiev. War broke out unexpectedly in 1941. We had no idea it was coming. Bebah with our aunt (my mother's cousin) and her family were the first to evacuate. Her husband, an officer, and she - a Komsomol member, said it is too dangerous to stay and wait for the Germans in their situation. Nobody ever mentioned the danger for the Jews to stay! My sister Bebah was working as an ophthalmologist by that time, and her husband, who worked as a surgeon, worked successfully in the village of Irpen outside Kiev.