Tag #147974 - Interview #78121 (rachel rivkina)

The Jewish lifestyle was natural for me, though I was brought up according to Soviet rules. I was a pioneer [4], and so was my elder brother. That wasn't the point where our parents pressed their children down, they gave us the freedom to choose. Aunt Mussya became a candidate party member even before the war. My brother Isaac, born in 1913, also entered the Party when he was 18 years old. After he finished technical school, he studied at a flying school in Stalingrad [today Volgograd]. The only thing that my mother forbade was to eat non-kosher meals.