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SALJA JAKUPOWA

SALJA JAKUPOWA

(LENINGRAD/RUSSIA 1931)

SIEGE OF LENINGRAD ESCAPE WORKED AS A CHILD RETURN

Siege of Leningrad

Fled across lake Lagoda with two sisters to an aunt in the administrative territory Jaroslawl April 1942

Since civil war father could only see with one eye/ Did not have to go to the front

Mother was porter, later guard during the war

Started working at age 14

Return to Leningrad in July 1945

Lest We Forget Cologne 11.03.2015