A Real Reunion

My Mom's friend Joy was allowed to return to Lithuania in 1958. She and her family had spent seventeen years in Siberian exile. Her family had been deported to the Gulag because her mother was a teacher.

Kaunas, Lithuania, September 20, 1958. My Mom's maternal Aunt, Dora, stands in the center. Joy is to her right, and on Dora's left is Joy's mother. Joy and her mother had just returned to Lithuania. The women pose in front of the house in which my Mom grew up.