(Wywiady dostępne są w językach angielskim i ukraińskim. Prosimy o wyrozumiałość.)
Bershad, Ukraine
Interview conducted in 2004 by Zhanna Litinskaya
This is me (from the left) with my co-students Tarnavskiy and Tselik of the Medical College in Tulchin. This photo was taken after we finished the third year, Tulchin, 1939.
My wife Beila Rabinovich. This photo was taken on her birthday in Bershad in 1936.
My wife Beila Rabinovich is from the left, and her friend is on the right. I don’t know her name or her story. This photo was taken in Bershad in 1933 at the end of an academic year.
My wife Beila Shor (the 1st from the left) and the bank employees at the parade on 1 May. This photo was taken in â Bershad in the middle 1950s.
This is me 2nd from the left in the upper row, photographed with a group of employees of the district polyclinic with the building of the polyclinic that housed an agitation unit, 1970, Bershad.
My wife Beila Shor wearing a white shawl, the one in the center, and her employees during the parade on 1 May. This photo was taken in Bershad in the middle 1970s.
This is me with my wife Beila. This photo was taken in 1979 in Bershad on our wedding anniversary.
This is me with my wife Beila. This is our first family photograph taken in the middle 1950s in Bershad.
This is me at my work, taking care of my patient. This photo was taken in the surgery in our district polyclinic, Bershad’, 1970s.
My spouse Beila Shor on vacation in Odessa in 1954.
My younger brother Grigoriy Shor, his wife Rosa and their daughter, this photo was taken in Blagoveschensk, middle 1960s. Gersh sent it home to Bershad for the memory.
This is our family photograph taken on the eve of the New Year of 1958, 1 January in Bershad. My father Pinkhus Shor is sitting in the center, on his right is my sister Klara Geizer, her husband is beside her, standing from left to right are my brother Gersh Shor, his wife Rosa, my wife Beila and I. Children: standing on the left Roman Geizer, my sister’s son, and my brother Gersh’s daughter, whose name I don’t remember.
This is me. This photo was taken in â Bershad in July 2004, I am reading a prayer during the interview.
My mother Reizl Shor. This photo was taken in 1929 in Bershad.
Born and raised in Bershad, Mr. Shor gives us good insight into his hometown, where he still lives. In the 19th and 20th century the population was mainly Jewish, and, according to the interviewee, “Jews and Ukrainians respected each other’s traditions and religion.” The town boasted 14 synagogues, only one of which remains. Growing up in a religious family, Mr. Shor keeps vivid memories of the celebration of Sabbath, Pesach and other Jewish holidays. In 1937 he went to study at Medical College in Tulchin, and a few days after the Great Patriotic War began, he was sent to the front as commanding officer of a sanitary platoon. During the defense of Mariupol, he got in encirclement, was wounded, but managed to escape, while his division perished. He joined his family, who stayed on occupied territory, but feeling guilty about his involuntary desertion he joined the army again in March 1944, served as sergeant of medical service at the Southwestern Front and took part in liberating Ukraine and Moldova. Wounded toward the end of the war, he celebrated Victory Day in hospital, demobilized shortly after and returned to Bershad to pursue his career as a doctor. 15 photos illustrate his life story.
