Leningrad Siege Memorial

In 2004, my son David took this picture of the Leningrad Seige Memorial during his 6-month stay in St. Petersburg, Russia. During World War II, St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad, was surrounded by the German Army for 900 days. Over 600,000 residents of Leningrad died during the siege, but the city never surrendered.

David is back in St. Petersburg again this school year improving his Russian after being selected by a national fellowship program. Last spring, he graduated from the University of Chicago obtaining both his Bachelor and Master degrees in four years.

In my next post, I will explain how David's photo "flickred" around the world, and ended up in a museum in Berlin.