Tag #150403 - Interview #94447 (Larisa Radomyselskaya)

I went to the first form of a local Russian school. About half of my classmates were children in evacuation. I don’t know whether there were Jews among them. At that time issues of this kind didn’t matter. There was no anti-Semitism. The local population sympathized with those who were in evacuation in their town. Local children used to bring a potato or a pie to give them to evacuated children. I studied well and had no problems at school. In the first form I became a Young Octobrist [8]. I became a leader of a ‘little star’: an Octobrist unit of 5 children. I remember that ‘little star’ group went to help one old lady whose only son was at the front. We fetched water from a well and washed the floors in her house.