This rare photograph shows my beloved Uncle Mitya (Mattityahu) Abramov. Sadly, in the picture you can see only Uncle Mitya's hand, feeding an unidentified kitten, and behind him a smiling man whom I no longer recognize. It is the only photograph of Uncle Mitya cleared for publication. In 1983, armed KGB forces raided our old neighborhood, where Jewish, Muslim, Armenian, and Russian families lived, all of them barely scraping by. During the search of Uncle Mitya's basement apa