Tag #144915 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

I worked at a factory for about one year. There were very good people there, and one engineer said, ‘Valya, you are so gifted, you should go to university.’ I answered him, ‘It will be very difficult, because the war has just ended, it’s 1947, lots of young people are eager to enter university.’ I passed all entrance exams with excellent marks, however strange it may seem, and entered the Pediatric Institute, which I graduated from with specialization as a pediatrician. Because I followed in my father’s footsteps…