Tag #153261 - Interview #94182 (Rachil Lemberg)

Ananiev was quite a big town for its time. Its population constituted about 50 thousand people. There was Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish population and a minor number of Romanians and Moldavians.  Jews didn’t have their own neighborhood. They lived among non-Jewish neighbors. There was no anti-Semitism in Ananiev. All people were good neighbors and supported each other. There was a synagogue and a Jewish school in the town and there was a shochet. The majority of Jews were craftsmen and tradesmen. I don’t think there were orthodox Jews, but the situation might have been different when my father was a child I just don’t know. My father told me little about his childhood and youth.