The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

at School
Moisey Goihberg
Photo taken in: Kyiv, 1967
Interviewer: Zhanna Litinskaya
My daughter Natalia performing at
an academic concert at the music
school. She tried to enter the Kyiv
Conservatory after finishing music
school. At that time, though, it
was next to impossible for a Jew
to enter a cultural institution,
especially in Ukraine. She had to
go to the Sverdlovsk Conservatory
in Russia instead. Natalia became
a pianist and returned to Kyiv
where she works in a concert
organization.
Sonia Leiderman
Photo taken in: Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 1940
Interviewer: Ella Levitskaya
The school canteen during our celebration of May Day.
I am at the back, sitting at the first table from the left
looking at the camera. I was a sociable girl at school and
it was hard for me to sit still for our 45 minute lessons.
The teacher always had to talk with mama about me
turning around and talking to other children.
Zhenia Kriss
Photo taken in: Kyiv, 1934
Interviewer: Zhanna Litinskaya
My classmates and I in the 7th grade. I am sitting first from right. I went
to a Russian secondary school, but there were children of all nationalities
there and we were all friends. My parents wanted me to go to a Russian
instead of a Jewish school so I wouldn’t have language problems later in
Soviet higher education institutions. I was secretary of our Komsomol unit
and took part in district and town Olympiads in chemistry, physics, and
mathematics.
Iyah Dziekovskaya
Photo taken in: Izmail, 1948
Interviewer: Natalia Fomina
Me, first on the right, with two of my school friends.
This photo was taken in Izmail in 1948 while I was
studying at school #2 for girls. We were experimenting
with magnets for our physics lesson.
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