Cover
 Introduction
 Time Line
 Early Years: To 1939
 Outbreak of War: 1939
 In the Russian Zone: 1939-1940
 In the Taiga: 1940-1941
 Bodaybo: 1941 - 1943
 The Way Back: 1944-1945
 An Adventure:1945
 Semipalatinsk:1945-1946
 Repatriation: 1946
 Germany: 1946-1951
 Notes
 Notes 2
 Family Tree
 Trip to Siberia 2008
 Readers´ Comments
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Treif, kosher

Treif, kosher

Treif, kosher

A Jew may eat meat only if the animal has been slaughtered according to the instructions of Jewish law.  Permitted meat is kosher, forbidden is treif (literally, carrion).  Tsivye is being ironic.  The rabbinic literature discussing the issues of kosher and treif is both vast and subtle, but in extreme circumstances rules are grossly broken.  Note that the Law is severer for men than for women and children.    

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