Tag #132610 - Interview #78472 (Lia German)

According to family legend my grandfather came to Dvinsk on foot from some small Lithuanian village and built the first weaving machine with his own hands. He was a very talented person. His five children weren’t like him. They all received higher education and couldn’t do anything with their hands. They couldn’t put their minds to anything. My grandfather probably lived somewhere near because he married Riva Kadishevich and they moved to Dvinsk. Their entire family lived in Dvinsk until 1915. In 1915 they were taken to Pavlovski Posad, near Moscow, with the factory. Jews were first evicted from Kurlandia and then from Dvinsk. [Editor’s note: This move was connected to the tsarist government’s concern about the possible loyalty of Jews to the advancing German troops during World War I.