LVIV
My late and beloved mother Adele Brav traveled 2 hours on a train with my grandmother on August 31, 1939 to Lviv, then part of Poland and known as Lvov or Lvow. A shopping trip the day before 4th grade. That was the end of her formal education as war broke out the next day. The Soviets had trouble occupying the city back then and gave way to the Nazis in 1941. Ultimately Lviv became part of Ukraine in 1944 in the post-war settlement(s).