The author's family members in Austria, 1929. The occasion for the family gathering was to lay a headstone at the grave of my great-great grandmother who had been killed in a pogrom. L-R: Siblings Chana, Anna, an unnamed sister and the author's great-grandfather Shaya Streit; center, their father Yankel Streit. Anna and the unnamed sister, along with a brother, Max, were murdered in the Buchavina, Romania, in 1941.
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