When the eldest son, Yitzhak Mordechai Malach, married Sara Ruda, a young woman from Warsaw, the Malachs and the Rudas made an effort for the families to see each another with regularity.

Ruda family in Warsaw. Sara's parents at the table with relatives. Sara and her sister, standing rear, have the same smile. Standing rear is Sara's brother. Child at table is Sara's niece, standing near her mother, wife of Sara's brother. It is not known whether the middle-aged woman, center table, is the sister of Sara's mother or the mother of her brother's wife.

The Ruda family around the table, with their daughter Sara Ruda Malach, her husband Yitzhak (front right), her father-­in-law Rafael Hersch (back right), and toddler Abraham, Warsaw, Poland. Note portrait on wall of Sara and Yitzhak, possibly on occasion of their engagement.

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