Hike Cohn Schulman's wedding gift from Shaya Balaban

Shaya Balaban started making paper cuts when he returned home to Odessa from the war and was sick. When the war ended he just made his way home with his army uniform and some pumpernickel bread, that’s it. He had to make his way from Moscow to Odessa. When he arrived he found that his building had been bombed and his wife and children were dead. He was distraught. The superintendent of the building was a kind man and filled him in on what had happened. Shaya had always wanted to be an artist. And that’s when he made the snow flakes.