Looking for relatives

Posted on February 27, 2012

Elena Lazauskiene is writing from the Yakutsk region of Siberia, searching for her sister Ona. She had received one letter from Ona 3 months earlier. She had written to the indicated address on Griffith Park Boulevard in Los Angeles, but received no reply.  She was given the address of Bronius Gleveckas, living in Birmingham, England, by a relative of his. In this letter she is asking for his assistance in locating her sister.

Given the massive numbers of deportations, deaths, and fleeing of individuals from Eastern Europe, very many families were separated. A request which occurs repeatedly in the letters from Siberia, is an appeal for assistance in locating relatives.