Interview

Bella Vaisman was born in 1925 in Berdychiv. Her father was born in Warsaw and worked as a chief accountant. She grew up in a relatively wealthy family. Days before the war began, she went to visit her cousin, as a result of which she was cut of from the rest of her family. She survived the war in evacuation in Uzbekistan, but her family was killed in Berdychiv. She was married to Isaak Vaisman.


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When Bella Vaisman, nee Rainsdorf, was a child she lived in the same building block as Isaak Vaisman who would become her husband after the war. Bella came from a wealthier family, while her husband experienced a childhood in poverty. Her father, born in Warsaw, had come to Berdychiv as a refugee during the First World War, but was able to make a living for himself in the Soviet Union as a bookkeeper.