Tag #132794 - Interview #77995 (Liana Degtiar)

My paternal grandfather, Borukh Degtiar, was born in 1877. He lived in Soroki, Bessarabia [1] [Editor's note: Soroki: a district town in Bessarabia province, today in Moldova. According to the census of 1897 there were 15,351 residents and 8,783 of them were Jews. In 1910 there was a synagogue and 16 prayer houses in Soroki]. I don't know where he was born. He owned a fabric store. My grandfather wasn't highly educated, but he could read, write and count well. He could read and write in Yiddish and spoke fluent Russian and Romanian.