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In 1933 there was famine [10], I remember it well: we were miserably poor then. I remember that my mother and father had golden rings and they took them to the Torgsin store [11] to buy bread or something else. My father even had to take our pillows to sell them at the market. My father went to work at the garment factory. We didn’t have coal or wood to heat the apartment. I fell ill with measles. It created complications with my eyes: I had a squint, poor sight and long sight. I even couldn’t go to school at the age of seven: my parents decided I needed to get better.
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Abram Bashmet