Tag #143649 - Interview #83270 (Susanna Breido)

When my father was arrested, Mother had to find a job, so we had a day nanny, a Russian called Manya. Those who needed registration [17] in Leningrad gladly went to work as nannies. Since a nanny couldn’t manage both Ada, and me I had to go to a kindergarten. Mother worked as an ice-cream vender and at the Club of Sovtorgsluzhaschikh [Soviet Commercial Workers]. When there was no nanny, she worked at home, sewed gloves on a sewing machine; she also knitted mittens, as we had a knitting machine at home.