Tag #157481 - Interview #100414 (Michal Warzager)

My mother was short and had black hair. Black and thick, like a real Jew. She’d help father sew a bit, and did woman’s work, in the garden and around the house. She didn’t wear a wig, but always wore a headscarf. She did everything around the house, and took care of the animals – feeding and watering the cows, ducks and chickens. And in the garden she tended the vegetables that we ate later for dinner. And if there wasn’t much to do, then in the evening she would meet up with the family and sometimes with other neighbors. They’d chat; sometimes someone would bring along a book and read aloud in Yiddish. Mother was illiterate, she couldn’t read or write in Polish or Yiddish, but she liked to listen to someone reading.