Tag #143641 - Interview #83270 (Susanna Breido)

Workers who were dissatisfied with that condition arranged a pogrom in 1919, having asked a ‘Green’ gang for help [11]. The Reds and the Whites [12] were at war with each other and there were also the so-called Greens, who put together armed gangs, for example, the famous bandit Makhno [13], and plundered the population. The bandits killed Jews and robbed their houses. Eleven members of the Galyorkin family perished in that massacre, including Leib’s sons, Girsh and Rafail. Lipa himself was in Petrograd at that time and avoided death.