Tag #150350 - Interview #78157 (Rosa Gershenovich)

She was a taciturn old woman. She wore long black gowns and covered her head with a shawl. Times were hard during the Civil War [6] and we didn't even have enough bread. My mother and grandmother exchanged our possessions for bread and milk for me. But even then my grandmother tried to observe Jewish traditions. She lit candles before on Saturdays, prayed, and went to synagogue. We only spoke Yiddish in the family. This was the only language I knew when as a child.