Our apartment was in a poor-looking house in the corner of the alley leading to Tzafra kloyz. The kloyz was nice: painted and whitewashed. In front of the entrance there was an multi-colored flower garden and hawthorn trees with clusters of tiny red flowers.

As a 4 year-old boy I used to run up the alley to see the people praying…

...the Shamash lit the white heating oven with cut firewood piled on the side.

Mother – like all other women – used to spread golden clean sand on the corridor of the house.

Every Thursday evening or early Friday morning a carriage would arrive on the Niesviz’ road with fish for Sabbath. The carriage camped in the marked not far from the line of shops, behind the two lines of bargaining women sitting on stools selling from their small crowded stands bagels and various fruit and vegetables. Around the carriage many women stand bargaining with the seller.

2. continued up Tzafra street and led to Slutzk. Twice a week two wagon drivers drove to Slutzk.

It drove in the shtetl to collect passengers merchandise, letters, documents, etc.

I used to walk Tzafra street up to the windmills spread at the end of the street. On the way to the mills, on the right, stood a big barn half empty, for storing wheat. We used to sit on the swing hanging from the ceiling and swing.

3. From Ramistza street the road led to the river Zarocho and from there it went up the hill and reached the cemetery. The grownups went there on 9th of Av and before Rosh Hashanah.

On the right there was a smithy.

We used to bath in the river after school in summer.

We used to swim from one bank to the other.

4. the 4th road was called Prisades (boulevard of trees) and led from Radzivilimont and Tzafra steet to the river Krasnostav. Tall trees stood on both sides of the road. Fields of wheat and rye on bothe sides of the road. Telegraph poles.

Where the road started at Tzafra stree, there was a large puddle. The red soilof the place was used for bricks.

On the left of the road there was a desolate brick factory with many kilns.

Further the water mill Krasnostov. There is a wide bridge on the river.[from reading further it becomes clear that it has two layers to lead the water from the right to the left] Sluice gates below the bridge on the left, let the water roaring through. Below in a white noisy whirlpool a huge wheel is turned. It is bound to the small mill house opposite it.