Who were Rands parents? Did she have any brothers or sisters?
Rand was the eldest daughter of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna Rosenbaum. She had two younger sisters, Natasha (born in 1907) and Eleanora (born in 1910 and know as ‘Nora’). All of her immediate family except Nora died during World War II, and Rand was not even aware that her sister was still alive until 1973. After they rediscovered one another, a brief visit to the US by Nora and her husband went badly and left the two sisters estranged. Nora returned to Russia and survived her sister’s death until March 15, 1999.
