The birth certificate of my mother Surah Rapoport. It was issued by the rabbi of Belaya Tserkov.
My mother was born in Belaya Tserkov in 1912. She studied at the Jewish primary school and then went to the Jewish lower secondary school named after Sholem Aleichem. She finished school in 1929. In 1930 she moved to Kiev, where her sister Vera was living at that time. My mother went to work as a laborer at the Kiev radio plant. In 1931 she became a Komsomol member, and in 1932 she became a Communist Party candidate. She also became a Komsomol public propagandist at the radio plant. She propagated the Komsomol among young people, explaining its ideas and goals to them. My mother was a very kind and, at the same time, very active person. She had sincere faith in the communist ideals and loved her official activities.
Birth certificate of Mina Gomberg's mother Surah Rapoport
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