The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

Jewish Community life
Haya-Lea Detinko
Photo taken in: Lviv, 1935
Interviewer: Unknown
This is a photo of my Hashomer Hazair (Young Watchmen)
group. My friends and I went to the Lviv region to a Pioneer
camp. We rented an attic and lived there, sleeping on hay—
the boys on one side, girls on the other. We wore gray shirts
and dark blue ties as our uniform. The regular Pioneers wore
red ties. We had shirts with pockets, whistles, and all that
stuff. We all dressed this way.
Dora Nisman
Photo taken in: Chernivtsi, 1936
Interviewer: Ella Orlikova
My father, Moshe-Joseph Waisman. He prayed every
morning, facing the wall and always with a band wrapped
around his arm. He had a seat of his own in our village’s
synagogue. He paid for it, and nobody else had a right
to sit there. We only spoke Yiddish in the family. Nobody
was allowed to do any work on Saturdays, so all the food
for the Sabbath was cooked on Fridays. We observed all
the holidays. In the fall, after the Jewish new year, we
celebrated Sukkot for the harvest and ate all our meals
outside in a hut.
Leonid Dusman
Photo taken in: Odessa, 1913
Interviewer: Alexandr Beiderman
Members of the Jewish sport club Maccabi, including
my father Moisey Dusman standing second from left.
At 13 my father had his bar mitzvah and got a tallit and
tefillin. However, I never heard of my father going to the
synagogue. At 17 he became a volunteer with the Jewish
self-defense movement. There were many such units in
Odessa in those years, to fight against the street thugs
who were beating up Jews.
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