Tag #116255 - Interview #100288 (Eta Gurvichuyte )

Several years had past. In January 1939 father took a bath and caught cold. Like mother he died of pneumonia. I remember father’s funeral very well. In spite of his being unreligious, he was buried in accordance with the formal Jewish rite- he laid on the floor. He was buried without a coffin. We observed the mourning period – shivah.