Tag #153317 - Interview #78562 (Roza Levenberg)

In the early fifties, at the time of the campaign against «cosmopolitans» and the ”Doctors’ Plot”,1 I was fired. The reason they gave was “staff reduction”,  although there was no reduction. It took me almost a year to find a job. My father helped me a great deal during this period. Jews could hardly get work then, especially as teachers. An acquaintance of mine helped me to find a job at an evening school. She hired me when she was substituting for her boss who was on vacation. If he had been there, I wouldn’t have got a job. I worked at that school until I retired.