Tag #153370 - Interview #101831 (Tsylia Liatun)

In 1934 I became a member of ‘Betar’ – an organization for Jewish boys and girls that studied Hebrew, history of Palestine. We dreamed about going to the Promised land to build the state of Israel. We sang songs in Hebrew. We had blue and white uniforms and spent vacations in camps at the Baltic seashore. After the Soviet troops came to Latvia 5 father burned my Betar uniform [in the USSR all Jewish organization were forbidden].