Tag #147999 - Interview #78121 (rachel rivkina)

Later in 1948, I arrived in Leningrad. When in 1948 the State of Israel reappeared [20], my husband was 'on cloud nine' with happiness. We lived on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, near the Vladimirsky square. We had an eleven meter room in a large communal apartment, where there were nine more rooms. All our neighbors were Russian. We were the only Jews there. Our relations with the neighbors were normal. We had no incidents regarding nationality problems.