Tag #144837 - Interview #83317 (Margarita Farka )

In 1949 I went to visit my mother in Leningrad in order to get registration at the moment of obtaining my passport. Mother and Aunt Feiga made a lot of efforts in order to change their 14-square-meter room for a bigger one. Almost everybody lived in communal apartments at that time, in very constrained conditions. Several more years were spent in efforts to find an appropriate option. We found a big room of 26 square meters, divided by a partition, with the help of a broker. The partition didn’t reach the ceiling, but there remained an illusion of two rooms. After that my grandparents came to Leningrad. We began to live in a new communal apartment all together in this very divided room. Mother and Aunt Feiga lived in one room and my grandparents and I lived in the other one.

Four other families lived in our apartment.