Tag #138577 - Interview #78159 (Alexander Gajdos)

He lived in a two-room apartment full of old furniture. From my point of view at the time, nothing much. He of course already had running water. How many Jews lived in Vrutky, that I don't know. But on the whole it had a decent-sized community, with a nice synagogue. I even had a bar mitzvah in this town. My grandparents on both sides were Neolog Jews [1], which means that the High Holidays were observed in the family, but the Sabbath less, and the kashrut not at all.