ABSTRACT

By a happy combination of genes, those of Paulina Lifshitz and Jacob Lozanovsky, Grisha was born on 29th November 1937 in Leningrad. Paulina was born in Poland, im­ migrating to Russia as a child with the rest of her family. Her father, a physician, was a Colonel in the Polish army. Paulina graduated from The Leningrad Institute of Pharmacol­ ogy and then worked in Leningrad as a pharmacist. She was there during the World War II, inside the besieged Leningrad, saving many lives. She was a noble and a brave soul, remaining just as courageous later on in her life, despite the fact that she became paralyzed after an accident and remained so in the later twenty years. After the death of her only son, she immigrated with me to the USA where she lived until her death in 1983.