Tag #144891 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

By origin he must have been from Belarus, because he moved to Leningrad from Belarus [in 1927]. He must have come from some place near Kalinkovichi, because it was there that he married my grandmother. Her surname was Gorelik. She was a perfect housewife, looked after the house very strictly. She had eight children, four sons and four daughters [Klara, Maryasya, Avraam, Konstantin, Tasya, Fima, Asya and the smallest boy died in early childhood]. But she was very severe, with a difficult character. I communicated very little with her. Only when we went to our dacha [7] in Belarus in the summer, in Shokinki, on the bank of the Berezina River, we had to be together and talk: we went to the woods, gathered mushrooms; there were wonderful woods in the area before the war.