April 2, 2014

Hello, From a Friend


Kaunas, Lithuania, January 31, 1940. Mom's high-school classmate gave Mom this keepsake.

3 comments:

edutcher said...

Very Hollywood.

Your relatives were a lot more sophisticated than I would have thought.

Irene said...

People often don't think of Eastern Europeans as sophisticated. They instead think of peasants.

Kaunas, my Parents' home town, was called the "Paris of the East."

edutcher said...

Most of our images of that period are of Russia and the devastation of Barbarossa.

Lots of log cabins and babushkas.