Tag #152594 - Interview #103525 (Sarra Nikiforenko)

In 1925 my older sister Basia went to visit him since we hadn’t seen him since the revolution of 1917 4 and Civil War 5 She came back with a cut on her clothes. My mother asked her ‘What’s the matter?’. When a close relatives dies it’s a custom that a rabbi makes a cut on clothing. Anisim died of relapsing fever during my sister’s visit.