Tag #149353 - Interview #103660 (Sholom Rondin Biography)

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Their marriagetook place during the Civil War when the Red army came to Gomel.

They incurred big losses and needed to recruit local men. They came to my grandparents’ home and told my father to get ready to go to the army. He was 20, his wife was pregnant, he never held any weapon before, but he couldn’t disobey, sine they might have shot him as a deserter.
Period
Year
1919
Location

Gomel
Belarus

Interview
Sholom Rondin Biography