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Leonid Poberezhskiy’s father Ovsey Poberezhskiy

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Leonid Poberezhskiy’s father Ovsey Poberezhskiy

My father Ovsey Poberezhskiy (standing on the left) and I am on the right.

I was born in Uman in 1924. My mother and father were born in the town of Dashev Vinnitsa region.
After the war we knew there was anti-Semitism in Kiev in our everyday life and in the official institutions. I realized that it would be impossible for me to enter the university. Jews were practically not accepted there. Therefore in 1947 I entered extramural History Department in Moscow University. By that time I quit my job at the plant and worked at the library of the Academy of Sciences, in the department of microfilms. I went to Moscow to take my exams.

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