Moyshe Nayman 's parents owned cattle and worked the land during his childhood. He grew up with four siblings and helped out his parents on the farm. His father and grandfather made kosher wine for the community. After he finished his cheder education, he attended a yeshiva in Korsun and then studied with Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira in Mukacheve. During World War II, he was a forced laborer for a Hungarian labor battalion, before his deportation to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He was liberated from the Gunskirchen forced labor camp.
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Klyachanovo, Ukraine
Moyshe Nayman remembers in this clip the sleeping arrangements at his grandfather’s house in the rural village of Klyachanovo, near Mukacheve, before World War II. He and his brother slept in the same straw bed as his grandfather, because there was not room enough for each of the children to have their own beds.
Nayman, who lived on a farm with six cows, also recalls that his family had a vineyard from which they would make kosher wine to sell during Passover.