rescued jewish children

Ira Reiches-Roth and Tamara Chonovitz-Apelbaum

Ira Reiches and Tamara Chonovitz in 1941–1942 at the house of Jelena Stepanovna Grigorjeva. The two girls, Ira and Tamara, born in Vilnius at the beginning of 1941, were taken by their mothers Ida Reiches and Lida Chonovitz in a baby pram from the Vilnius Ghetto in autumn 1941 to a woman they did not know then, Jelena Stepanovna Grigorjeva, who lived at Kalvarijų 4 in Vilnius. Later Jelena Stepanovna and her daughter Irina would remember that they had expected one girl, but they received two...