Tag #112072 - Interview #94906 (Arkadi Yurkovetski )

I remember the period of famine in 1932-33 [14]. Our parents starved leaving whatever food they could get to me. They had to sell things to survive. My father’s clients paid him with a loaf of bread, couple eggs or a bottle of milk for his work. Many people were starving to death. Every now and then grandfather received $10-20 from his children living abroad. It wasn’t much, but it helped. We could buy food or clothes at a Torgsin [15] store in Tomashpol. Grandfather shared this money with the rest of the family. These stores were liquidated some time in 1935.