Tag #115597 - Interview #100553 (Boris Shteinas)

She died in spring 1940 shortly before the Soviets came to power in Baltic countries [2]. She was buried in Jewish cemetery without a coffin and according to the rite she was carried across the city on the boards in white shroud. We observed shivah after the funeral and I remember that father cut the collar of his clothes which was the sign of the mourning.