Tag #151762 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

My father’s family lived in Dorobratovo village of Irshava district in Subcarpathia [1]. This village doesn’t exist now. Irshava town [70 km from Uzhgorod, 640 km from Kiev] was spreading after WWII over the territory of adjoining villages, including Dorobratovo. I’ve never been to Dorobratovo and know only what my father told me about this village. In the 19th – early 20th centuries it was a small Ukrainian village. [editor’s note: Most probably it was a Ruthenian village.] There were about 150 families living in it. Among them there were 15-20 Jewish families. The Jews living in Dorobratovo dealt in crafts and farming. There was no synagogue in the village and Jews got together in a prayer house for a minyan. Only men were allowed to attend it. Women were not allowed to go to the prayer house. On big holidays they went to the synagogue in Belki, nearly 2 km from Dorobratovo.