Tag #150489 - Interview #78242 (Ruvin Gitman)

The synagogues in Kopaygorod - there were several of them - were open until 1936. When the struggle against religion [7] intensified they were closed. The Christian church was also closed. In those years it was not safe to go to synagogue. There was only one synagogue left of the 300 existing in Kiev before the Revolution of 1917.