Our Grandmother
ברוניה פורמן ברדיצ'בסקי ז״ל
1932 – 2012
A kindergarten teacher and director who gave her working life to the children of Mozyr.
Her Story
Bronia Naumovna Furman Berdichevsky was born in 1932. She was only nine when the war began, and she spent the war years in evacuation in Kazakhstan, far from home.
After the war she came back, and in Mozyr she met Isaak. Together they built their family in a home next to the Pripyat River.
She became a kindergarten teacher and later the kindergarten director. She worked from the end of the war until her very last working day, all of it in Belarus.
A lifetime spent caring for children, her own and everyone else's.
Her Path
Bronia Naumovna is born.
Aged nine when the war begins, she lives through the war years in evacuation in Kazakhstan.
Returns after the war and meets Isaak, home from the front. They settle by the Pripyat River.
Teaches young children, and later leads the kindergarten, until her last working day.
Bronia passes away in 2012. Her memory is a blessing.