Tag #155474 - Interview #94697 (Larisa SHYHMAN)

My grandmother told me that before World War I [4], during pogroms [5] in Grebenki she kept her brothers in hiding in cells and she proudly walked in the streets, a beauty that she was, and everybody greeted her ‘Miss, Miss’. She didn’t fear anyone and nobody did her any harm. She sang Ukrainian songs beautifully and spoke Ukrainian and Yiddish. She didn’t know Russian. When I remember her, she spoke Yiddish little. There were Slavic members of the family and she spoke Ukrainian.