Tag #153790 - Interview #103374 (Faina Melamed)

My father studied at school and received religious education at home. He and his brother studied Hebrew and Torah with a teacher who visited them at home. He also had private classes of playing the violin. My father’s family had a talent for music. When the World War I began my father served as a private in the tsarist army. When the October Revolution began he went to the Red army 6. He served in the troops under command of red commander Yakir 7. I think he did it because he knew about pogroms and the attitude of tsarist power to Jews. He believed that the new regime would bring wealth and prosperity to all.