Tag #153269 - Interview #94182 (Rachil Lemberg)

My mother arranged celebration of all holidays at home. She did a general cleanup before Pesach and took down special crockery from the attic. She baked matzah and cooked traditional Jewish food for the holiday. My father didn’t conduct seder at Pesach. I don’t remember celebration of Jewish holidays in our family. I think we just had a fancy meal after my mother came home from the synagogue. At Yom Kippur my mother fasted 24 hours. Nobody else fasted in the family. I also remember Chanukkah. My mother lit another candle in a big bronze candle stand every day.  Our relatives visited us and gave us some small change that we spent buying sweets.