![]() ![]() They had 2 rooms, and Daddy lived there with his parents, brothers and sister. There they lived in a shared apartment in Communications Union Street, block 11, near the main post office. Daddy’s family moved to Leningrad from the Smolensk district in 1934, but I do not know under what circumstances. They surely lived in a religious way - prayed, observed Sabbath and all Jewish holidays. ![]() ![]() The family was religious everyone spoke Yiddish. His mother, Sarra Movshevna, did not work outside the home - she brought up her children. Daddy, unfortunately, can not remember what his father’s occupation was. According to his stories, they had their own house, consisting of two or three rooms. Until he was 10, Daddy lived with his parents in Lyubavichi. Originally the family name was Shneerson, but the well-known Lyubavichi eabbi hneerson lived in the same district and all correspondence went to his address, so my father’s father, my grandfather Abram Leibovich, changed his surname to Shneerov, to avoid the confusion. My father – Ilya Abramovich Shneerov - was born in 1911 in the town of Lyubavichi in the Smolensk region, Rudyansk district. ![]() I want to tell you first a little of what I know about my father’s family. Unfortunately, I never knew any of my grandparents - they died long before my birth. I was born late to my parents: my mother was 36, and Daddy was 45. I was born in 1956 in Leningrad and lived all my life in Vasilievsky Island, one of oldest districts of Saint Petersburg. ![]()
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