edited: Rockzmom and I must have posted at the same time, I will now read her entry above!




Oh wow, Lemberg and Lvov is the same place. Haha!
I thought Lemberg was a place in Poland, now going under some tongue-twister name... Lol!
Perhaps it's a similar situation to some places I visited in Belarus that had been passing around between several countries for centuries.
There is something fascinating and a bit cosmopolitan about such places even though it must have been dramatic and disturbing too.

I simply assumed it was German spelling because they usually replace v with w when transliterating Russian, whereas English doesn't.

Ok, now we are waiting to hear what else Rockzmom knows about these intriguing relatives of hers!