Tag #153262 - Interview #94182 (Rachil Lemberg)

My father and his brother Bencion finished a Jewish 7-year school in Ananiev. It wasn’t a religious school. I don’t know whether my father and his brother attended cheder. My father was very smart. When he was young he got enthusiastic about revolutionary ideas. My father told me that he and his friend, a Jewish boy, used to go to the attic where they read books of communist ideologists.  Actually, my father didn’t go farther than reading. He never got involved with any revolutionary groups.  My father had beautiful handwriting. He could write in Russian and read and write in Yiddish. However, neither my father nor his brother could continue their education since they had to go to work to support the family. I don’t know who was breadwinner in the family before my father went to work at the age of 13. He became a worker at a buttery.