Sura Bivson was born in 1926 in Polonne. Her father paved clay floors. Sura attended a Yiddish school for six years. In 1941, her family escaped from Polonne and evacuated to Birobidzhan. After the war in 1945, Bivson returned to Polonne, and a few years later, her family moved to Starokostyantyniv, where she was married and had one son. Bivson worked as a telephone operator for forty years.
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Birobidzhan in 1941the shoykhet across from us
Starokostyantyniv, Ukraine
In this clip, Sura Bivson remembers how her family would keep kosher in Starokostyantyniv after World War II. She explains that they continued to procure kosher meat from the neighboring town of Khmelnytskyy, after the local kosher butcher passed away.