Tag #132772 - Interview #78135 (esfir dener)

Then I went to work at the shipyard in Nikolaev where I was an apprentice to an electric welder. I had no idea that this shipyard was a military site and that there was an NKVD department there. They finally dug out who I was and that I was on the all-Union search list. Nine months later they came to the hostel with a search crew. They took away my mother's last letter. I snatched it from the NKVD officer's hands and said, ‘This is my mother's last letter. She has died, and nobody but me is allowed to have this letter', but they took it away from me, anyway.