Tag #146652 - Interview #78194 (Irina Khokhlova)

In 1950 our good acquaintance Rusetsky, a lawyer, came one night to warn us of danger. He took away all pre-war papers in which his father’s name had been mentioned. His father was a friend of our family. A year later Rusetsky was arrested and repressed. During the search, our address was found in his papers, and Father was summoned for interrogation to the Big House. Father was dismissed from his job. Only a half-year later, friends helped him to get the position of a footwear shop superintendent out of town somewhere. During the period he was jobless, the family had no means. We were regularly visited by shoemakers who had worked under my father. They helped us out financially. But it was not without their help that he took to wine. It was really a great misfortune for our family.