Tag: USSR
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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).…
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How I almost wasn’t born
I was born 5 years after WW2 in Chernowitz, now Ukraine. That was a time of heavy antisemitic atmosphere in the Soviet Union. My mother, told me about the time she went to the hospital to give birth to me. When she arrived, the midwife who was Jewish was about to go home after her…