Boris Rubenstein's communist pioneer camp

I will remember the summer of 1940 as long as I live, because for the first time in my life I was in a pioneer camp. It was not a simple camp, and what's more, it was the best pioneer camp in Ukraine - Ukrartek. It was located in Lustdorf - a well-known resort near Odessa, on the coast of the Black Sea. There were children of different nationalities: Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish. Spanish children, whose parents died in the war in Spain, also spent their vacations there. The tutors were almost all Jewish for some reason. I remember fascinating crusades, sports competitions and, certainly, pioneer songs by the fire. It was the last peaceful summer before the war.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

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