Tag #144723 - Interview #97065 (Irina Soboleva-Ginsburg )

We ate unripe tomatoes. Potatoes were as small as peas, so we didn’t peel them, which was the usual thing at the time. The local population sympathized with those that were in evacuation in the town. They didn’t segregate people according to their nationality. They had never seen Jews before. I believe anti-Semitism arrived there along with the evacuated Russians. Once my mother and I were at the market. She asked me what was necessary to join the Union of Artists. I started explaining and we began this short discussion. Some drunk military commented, ‘Here, these zhydy [kikes] are discussing the ways of joining the Party!’.