Anna Perelman was born in Kiev on April 26, 1924 where she had a happy childhood. In 1936, after the death of her father Yefim, she moved with her mother Sonya to Leningrad to be with her older brother’s family. As a teenager, she survived the blockade of Leningrad. She attended the Moscow Medical Institute while evacuated to Southern Siberia towards the end of World War II. As someone who contracted tuberculosis, which was incurable at the time, her medical practice was restricted to patients with the disease. She met her husband, Viktor Eskin, a polymer physicist, while he was a patient at one of the sanatoriums where she worked, and helped save his life. Together they raised a daughter. Anna continued to practice medicine until the early 1980’s, and participated in the study of vaccines for TB, earning a doctorate degree. For the last several decades of her life, she dedicated herself to her family, helping raise her two grandchildren, and cared for her husband through a prolonged illness. She moved to the United States with her family in 1990. She enjoyed friendships, reading, and travel, including taking several trips to Israel. Not allowed to learn about her family’s traditions while she was a young woman, later in life she immersed herself in the study of Judaism. She was a very proud great-grandmother.
Anna leaves her daughter, Marina Eskin and son in law Sergey Buldyrev, her two grandsons, Ilya and Vladimir Buldyrev, her great granddaughter Andrea Buldyrev, her nephews Alexander and Mark Klyatchko, and their children, Ilya, Anton and Ksenya.
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