Tag #144403 - Interview #78227 (frieda stoyanovskaya)

The first years in Kiev (1920 to 1922) were very difficult. For a short while we lived with our acquaintances; all five of us in a small room for servants, near the kitchen. Then we lived in some basements, and later we got accommodation in an apartment at Podol [3]. This apartment belonged to the landlords Friedland once, a very rich family. Theirs was an eight or nine-room apartment, and after the revolution other families got accommodation in their apartment. Their big apartment changed into a communal flat with quite a few neighbors. In the course of time, there was only one old woman of all the Friedlands living in that apartment. I believe their children emigrated. This old woman Friedland hated all her new and numerous neighbors. The neighbors were mainly Jewish.