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Fortunately, our family was not affected by any state actions against Jews, starting from assassination of Mikhoels [29], arrest of Jewish anti-fascist committee [30], so called campaign against cosmopolites [31] etc. The year 1948 was the time of anxiety. Mikhoels was assassinated, then arrests started. I remember the day when in 1953 there was an article revealing «doctors’ plot» [32]. When I came to work I saw that terrible article on my desk. Somebody did it, but I cannot say that I came across open anti-Semitism. Of course, all of us had to go through that. We read the articles, but we did not believe what was written as we understood that it was baiting of Jews.
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Berta Zelbert