Tag #156138 - Interview #103967 (Evgenia Wainshtock Biography)

My father was very intelligent. But in 1937 my father’s co-student and friends submitted a report on my father, accusing him of refusing to buy a state loan lottery! (Editor’s note: The Soviet power was in bad need of money for development of its industries and issued a state loan lottery in late 1920s. People were forced to buy these loan lotteries.) My father told me later that he had seen and read this paper My father was arrested when my mother and I were in Kiev; he was tortured – every ten minutes he was called to interrogation, they didn’t let him sleep. It lasted for about a month. They wanted my father to sign a paper confirming that he was guilty to have a document to sentence him, but my father was a strong person and he didn’t accept any accusations.