Tag #153273 - Interview #94182 (Rachil Lemberg)

In 1932-33 there was famine 11 in Ukraine. The situation was easier in towns while in villages people were dying of starvation. Our situation was very hard, but I don’t remember anyone to have starved to death. My father went to work in Russia where the situation was better and my mother had to support the family. She went to work in a diner and every day she brought her earnings home: a bowl of soup and half a loaf of bread for all of us. My mother also took a piglet to feed and then sell it. My mother was very upset about having to keep a pig. According to Jewish religion pigs are improper animals, but we had to survive. We didn’t eat pork, but when we sold the pig the money we got helped us a lot.  Every now and then my father sent us some food or money. We somehow managed to live through this hard time and then life began to improve.