After the revolution of 1917 my grandfather worked as an accountant in an office in Borisov.
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evgenia shapiro
They stopped observing traditions after 1917. They were influenced by the Soviet propaganda speaking of the equality of all people and stating that religion was something people didn't need.
My grandparents perished in 1941 when the Germans exterminated the Jewish population of Borisov. All Jews were taken to the outskirts of the town and shot. Their bodies were thrown into a freshly dug pit.
My mother's older sister, Tenia Gershenovich, was born in Borisov in 1906. She finished Russian grammar school in Borisov and graduated from the Institute of Economy in Moscow.
My mother's older sister, Tenia Gershenovich, was born in Borisov in 1906. She finished Russian grammar school in Borisov and graduated from the Institute of Economy in Moscow.
During the war she was in evacuation in Zlatoust in the Ural.
Her husband, David Mezo, was a rich timber merchant.
She finished grammar school in Borisov and an accountancy college in Moscow.
Her daughter Inna, born in 1936, graduated from the Institute of Chemical Industry in Moscow.
During the war she was in evacuation in Cheliabinsk region, Zlatoust in the Ural.
During the war she was in evacuation in Zlatoust.
In 1973 she and her husband, Professor Fyodor Litvin, a Jew, moved to the US. Fyodor Litvin is a Doctor of Physics and still gets invitations to hold lectures in various countries all over the world. They live in Chicago and have two children.
She finished Russian school and graduated from the Faculty of Microbiology at Moscow University.
Ida and her younger son, Mark, moved to New York in 1990.
Her older son, Boris, is chief engineer for the reconstruction of Tsarskoye Selo and Pushkino [historical places in the outskirts of Leningrad].
Mark graduated from the Institute of Shipbuilding in Moscow.
She finished Russian secondary school in Borisov and graduated from the Optical-Mechanic Institute in Leningrad.
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His first wife was shot by the Germans in Bobruisk, Belarus.
Their daughter Irina and their son Michael live in the US.
My mother's brother, Samuel Gershenovich was born in Borisov in 1921. He finished Russian secondary school in Borisov.
In 1943 he went to the front where he was shell- shocked. He had to stay in hospital for some time and his hearing became worse as a result of the injury.
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She finished Russian grammar school in Borisov in 1923.
At school she got inspired by revolutionary ideas and became a Komsomol member. Later she became a candidate for the party membership.
My mother never observed any Jewish traditions.
She spoke Russian, although her mother tongue was Yiddish.
She was also involved in Komsomol and party activities. She was responsible for the organization of the party meetings and conducting communist propaganda about equality and friendship of all people. She was also responsible for the distribution of the party literature.
During this period she russified her last name to Gershanova.
In 1931 she went to Leningrad to study at the School of Economics.
My parents got married in 1932. They had a civil ceremony at the registry office. They didn't have a wedding party.
My father received an apartment when he was a student at the Communications College, and they lived in this apartment.