Tag: Doctors Plot
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How my Mother Was Accused of Trying to Poison a Patient
It was 1953, at the time of the infamous Doctors Plot. In the last throes of Stalin’s rule a huge antisemitic campaign has begun. It was supposed to culminate with pogroms and mass deportations of Jews to Siberia. My mother was then a young doctor at a clinic treating coal miners in Stalino (now Donetzk).…