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My parents’ life was far from being religious. They lived in modern urban conditions. No Jewish traditions were celebrated in our family. We did not attend the synagogue. I think that there even was no synagogue in the places we lived. There was a Soviet school. Father gave me various ‘ideological’ lectures about life, about how I should behave. My favorite holidays were the Soviet New Year and the Soviet Army Day [9]. We never celebrated Pesach or other religious holidays. Only once, in 1940 I was present at the Pesach celebration at my grandmother’s place in Rogachyov. I didn’t like the Pesach food, I had to eat matzah and matzah dumplings instead of bread, and I was not used to it.
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Nina Khlevner