Tag #112031 - Interview #94906 (Arkadi Yurkovetski )

After World War I there were Jewish pogroms [7] in Tomashpol that lasted until the end of the Civil War [8]. They were made by gangs [9] that came to villages to rob and kill. The locals gave shelter to Jewish families. The locals had Christian icons at the entrance to their houses and bandits didn’t come to their houses as a rule. Of course, there was risk to local families since if bandits did find any Jews in their houses they killed owners, too, and burnt their houses. There were more pogroms during the Civil War. A Petlura [10] gang killed my father’s brother whose name I don’t know. Denikin [11] gangs also robbed and burned Jewish houses and killed Jews.