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My mother’s name was Dora, Debora Moiseyevna. She was born in the family of handicraftsmen. My Mother was also born in Yelisavetgrad in 1903.We lived either in the apartment with my grandmother or in the house in Yelisavetgrad. My father worked in Kharkov, Odessa or Kiev. When he left Yelisavetgrad we moved to our grandmother Esther, Fira. She concerned with a household. Prepared in that time for small kerosene stoves. Ate we well, most of all I liked when grandmother do gomentash, little triangular pies, with the bouillon, she cooked different strudel pies. Shi in general prepared enough tasty.
Our apartment was in the center, in Timiriazevskaya street, in a solid two-storied building. My grandmother and grandfather and mamma’s only sister moved into this apartment. My mother’s sister was Klara. She was three years younger than mamma. They studied at school. When mamma was at high school she dated George, my father’s older brother. He was a couple years older than my father, so, my father had been acquainted with her at that time. After his brother died, my father married her. Mamma wasn’t engaged to George – he was just courting her.
When George was in the Red Army, they sent him to study at the Conservatory, as he had a very good voice. But he fell ill with spotted fever and died. Well, his younger brother married his girl in 1924.
My father’s and my mother’s families had known each other for a long time. They used to visit one another. There were very warm relationships between the families and they saw each other every day. My father’s grandmother always came with little something to our home. Most often these were sweets, even before the wedding my parents.
At first my father worked in the printing house in Kirovograd. Then he joined the Party and got promoted – he became director of the biggest bookstore. The bookstore was located downtown. Later he got further promotion and became a Party official.
Our apartment was in the center, in Timiriazevskaya street, in a solid two-storied building. My grandmother and grandfather and mamma’s only sister moved into this apartment. My mother’s sister was Klara. She was three years younger than mamma. They studied at school. When mamma was at high school she dated George, my father’s older brother. He was a couple years older than my father, so, my father had been acquainted with her at that time. After his brother died, my father married her. Mamma wasn’t engaged to George – he was just courting her.
When George was in the Red Army, they sent him to study at the Conservatory, as he had a very good voice. But he fell ill with spotted fever and died. Well, his younger brother married his girl in 1924.
My father’s and my mother’s families had known each other for a long time. They used to visit one another. There were very warm relationships between the families and they saw each other every day. My father’s grandmother always came with little something to our home. Most often these were sweets, even before the wedding my parents.
At first my father worked in the printing house in Kirovograd. Then he joined the Party and got promoted – he became director of the biggest bookstore. The bookstore was located downtown. Later he got further promotion and became a Party official.
Location
Ukraine
Interview
Grigoriy Yakovlevich Husid