Tag #146569 - Interview #78019 (Rita Kazhdan)

For instance, father had a close friend named Rudolf, who had retained his German citizenship and was not shot like other people of German origin during the Stalinist repression [the so- called Great Terror] [6], but was given the option of leaving Russia within twenty-four hours. And shortly after they left, father was summoned to the GPU [7], because they had been great friends with Rudolf. Everybody was suspected of espionage. But that was only one reason. The other was that they were looking for gold in our house.