sentences:  Gary was born Roman Kacew ( "Roman Katsev", , "Roman Leibovich Katsev") in Vilnius (at that time in the Russian Empire).In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his parents' origins, ancestry, occupation and his own childhood.His mother, Mina Owczyńska (1879—1941), was a Jewish actress from Švenčionys (Svintsyán) and his father was a businessman named Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942) from Trakai (Trok), also a Lithuanian Jew.