Raspberries Saved My Life, Irena’s fascinating memoir, is a snapshot of a woman’s life from her childhood to the moment she steps onto Ellis Island, pursues an art career, resists attempts to made into a starlet, and becomes a portrait artist to the stars in Miami Beach, Florida. Today she lives in Montague, New Jersey, and donates her art to the Sussex County Museum.
Raspberries Saved My Life
by Irena Dmitrovskaya Schachter
Raspberries Saved My Life
by Irena Dmitrovskaya Schachter
Published Jul 29, 2021
235 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Book Details
Born in 1930 to an civil engineer father and an economist/musician mother.
Irena Dmitrovskaya Schachter was born in 1930 to an civil engineer father and an economist/musician mother in Kiev. Living under the oppressive Stalin regime until World War II, Irena attended middle school and took art lessons, revealing a real talent at a very early age. In 1941, the Germans occupied Kiev, and so began a series of moves. On one ship leaving Konigsberg, Irena and her family watched as two ships before theirs hit mines and sank. The Dmitrovskayas survived, and they ended up in Osterode, Germany. At 19, Irena was accepted into the Werkkunstschule art school until finally her mother was sponsored to emigrate to the U.S.