Mira Pasek
Sura Bivson
(Starokostyantyniv 2009)

 

 

 

 

Sura Melekhovna Bivson (née Frierman) 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. 

Photographer: Artur Frątczak