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===== In 1970, Franka was visited by Irina Rozanova, the musicologist who had rediscovered Yakob’s symphony. Irina, now working on a suppressed monograph about Jewish Soviet composers, asked if Franka had any of Yakob’s surviving scores. =====

Franka said yes—and led her to a closet where she had carefully hidden three tin boxes:
* Yakob’s String Quartets (1947–1950), unperformed
* Israel’s unpublished Holocaust cycle Night Without Flags, copied in Franka’s careful handwriting
* A full handwritten score to “Iron Flowers”, including Franka’s personal notations from its original staging

Irina was stunned. She asked if she could take the materials to Leningrad for safekeeping.

Franka refused.

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They spent five days together, copying page after page by hand and typewriter. Irina wept over Israel’s verses. Franka did not. She had no tears left.