Tag #154020 - Interview #90540 (Frida Muchnik)

There were many Jews in Bershad in the early 1950s – almost all those who survived the Great Patriotic War returned home. Probably for this reason there was no such adamant anti-Semitism here in the late 1940s-early 1950s, the period of ‘rootless cosmopolitans’23 and the ‘doctors’ plot’24 went past us. We didn’t read newspapers and had no interest in politics. The main thing then was to survive and the rest seemed insufficient.  I didn’t hear about these campaigns till the 1990s. I remember a meeting in the central square, when Stalin died: all people were crying and so was I.