 The final painting of the Babi Yar cycle was created during Stalin's vicious anti-Semitic campaign in 1952.The second painting Babi Yar painting was never exhibited in the Soviet Union, it was shown publicly for the first time at Brandeis University in 2011 marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre.He was married to Lucia Keiserman Lemberskaya (1915–1994).