Tag #144892 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

Grandmother Faina died in 1940, she was buried at the Jewish cemetery in Kontorskaya Street in Leningrad [St. Petersburg]. Almost all my relatives: Grandmother, Grandfather, my sister, Mom, Daddy and Uncle Abrasha, all are buried in Kontorskaya Street, near the synagogue. For all of them they read the burial service in the synagogue. And the custom was to cut off a small piece of the nearest relatives’ clothes, daughter’s and son’s, for some reason.