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Part Two: The Braverman Family 65 Vova now operates a tire repair shop in Moscow. Lev and Vova's younger brother Zhenya married Natalia Sveridova on April 7, 1984, in Moscow. They moved to Israel in 1990 and have two children, Roman and Mark. When Lev was 25 years old, he discovered om his maternal grandmother that his mother, Tanya, was in fact Mikhail's second wife. Worse, he discovered that his father had experienced an almost indescribable tragedy. Mikhail and his first wife, Sarah, had married in Moscow before the outbreak of the war and had two children. When Mikhail was mobilized, Sarah had a mental breakdown and killed their two children. Sometimes he thinks that Sarah killed the children because she couldn't bear to see them starve during the war and famine in Moscow. Unfortunately many children died of starvation. Lev does not know what became of Sarah. Khaya (Klara) Braverman Laber Khaya (Klara) Braverman Laber Klara was the oldest of the three Braverman daughters. She was born on December 1, 1914 in Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, at a tumultuous time. World War I was in full bloom and the events that would lead to the abdication of the tzar and the Russian Revolution were developing across the land. Klara married Leonid (Lyenya) Laber in Kamenets-Podolsk in 1933. Leonid was born with some fingers missing om his right hand, a fact that kept him om being draed into the Soviet army and probably helped ensure his survival. Leonid died in 1974 in Moscow. In 1981, Klara immigrated to the United States. Klara had many pregnancies that resulted in miscarriages or children who died in infancy, but three children survived. The first, Faya, was six at the time the family escaped to Samarkand. Faya married Lev Geller and had two children, Mikhail and Mark. Faya's brother Lev was born in 1945 in Moscow. Although he immigrated to Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1981, he currently lives with his wife, Lilya, in Connecticut. He was trained to work in construction in Russia and has continued that career in the United States. They have two children, Mark and Leonid. Mark married Eleonora Katsnelson on August 9, 1997 in Windsor, Connecticut, and their two children are Joshua Samuel and Olivia Above: Klara Braverman Laber in Pavlovskiy Posad, Russia, 1936. Previous page: Rosa, Zena, Dora (Lyubov's aunt), Yura (Malka's son, who died when he was 10 years old), and Lyubov in Pavlovskiy Posad, Russia, 1938.

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