Tag #106952 - Interview #78428 (Estera Migdalska)

We spoke mostly Yiddish at home, my parents certainly spoke Yiddish to each other, and Father certainly spoke Yiddish to us, while Mother talked to us in Polish. My parents thought it very important that we knew Yiddish but that we weren’t isolated from Polish either. I don’t know about my sister, but I understood both Yiddish and Polish well, so if my parents didn’t want us to understand a conversation, they’d switch to Russian. Every time I returned home from my grandfather in Pinsk and started talking, my mother, I remember, found my [eastern] accent offensive. Mother completed a Russian high school but her native tongue was Yiddish, just like Father’s.