Tag #149259 - Interview #78073 (sarra shpitalnik)

Then arrests began. Our acquaintance Milstein, a tradesman, was arrested. The main cause of his arrest was that the new authorities liked his mansion. My father was a brave man. He went to the NKVD [20] office and said that Melstein had contributed money to the communist party, but they responded, 'Just be grateful that you are free and take your good leave.' About 60 years later a French-speaking man came to the Jewish library where I worked. He introduced himself: 'I am the artist Milstein.' He turned out to be the son of this man that my father had stood up for. He lives in Paris and recently sent me an album of his pictures.