Tag #113588 - Interview #78134 (Anna Ivankovitser)

The arrests began in 1936. [The interviewee is referring to the so-called Great Terror.] [9] They lasted until the war. They usually came for people at night. When we heard loud knocking on a door, we knew that they came for someone. Our family did not suffer from the arrests. Nobody in Shargorod knew anything about our 'criminal' bourgeois past. My father was much respected in Shargorod. Well, as they say, the Lord was merciful to us.