Tag #150546 - Interview #94447 (Larisa Radomyselskaya)

She died in 1964. Although she was an atheist she asked us before she died to arrange a Jewish funeral for her. My husband and I were confused: we didn’t know anything about Jewish customs or traditions. She died on Friday morning and I recalled that Jews went to the synagogue on Friday. My husband and I went to the synagogue. Although we were there for the first time other attendants were sympathetic with us. We got any help we needed: they delivered a casket, excavated a grave and made all arrangements for the funeral. We buried my mother-in-law in the Jewish cemetery in Uzhhorod according to Jewish traditions, but my husband and I didn’t join the Jewish way of life then.