Tag #131556 - Interview #92978 (Izia Antipka)

Orgeyev was a truly Jewish town at that time: 80 percent of its population was Jewish. Jews kept almost all stores and shops in the center of the town. Jewish doctors, lawyers and businessmen lived in the central part of the town. There was a number of synagogues, a Jewish hospital, and later the Joint [4] established and supported an affiliate of the Jewish Health Association.