For 7 years it felt like I was in prison. I wasn’t able to have a bank account or a phone. You can’t do anything if you don’t have legal documentation.
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For 7 years it felt like I was in prison. I wasn’t able to have a bank account or a phone. You can’t do anything if you don’t have legal documentation.
My parents weren’t required to give a dowry, but my mom had jewelry that she gave to all the daughters and daughters-in-law anyway, and there were 9 of us children.
It had been illegal for soldiers to steal things from Germany after the War, so you can see that the maker’s mark was rubbed off in order for it to have been smuggled out and brought to the Soviet Union.
I was the little parcel on the way, but we don’t know for sure whether I was conceived in Russia or in Austria.
There was no Home Depot in Kiev in the ‘70s, so we had to slip something to someone under the table, and lumber would disappear from a construction site.
In Georgia there were only about 10 Jewish last names, so it was fairly easy to tell who the Jews were.
They took my mom and me aside to a different room, where they searched our things, and of course they found the bag of jewelry and threatened to call the police.
