Tag #117534 - Interview #100491 (Frida Zimanene)

At that time there was a great number of youth organizations in Kaunas. There were also Zionist organizations – Maccabi, Betar [8]. There were also ‘left-wing’ movements in our school and some teachers, including Zimanis, strove to attract students to underground Komsomol organizations [9]. Many of my comrades joined the Komsomol. They got together surreptitiously, handed out flyers. They were also involved in Communist propaganda. I was totally apolitical. Our family wasn’t interested in politics at all.