Tag #146782 - Interview #83398 (Ninel Kunina)

After his return from Chelyabinsk, Dad worked as a deputy director of some factory, where he was several times given places in a sanatorium [recreation center]. He went to these resorts alone, without Mom. I don’t know why, but he never spent his leave with us and Mom. At this factory he also dealt with the problems of the enterprise’s supply. Dad was given his own room in place of the one he had rented, and now we lived in a communal five-room apartment [16] with stove heating, in which gas was installed in 1939. But there was no bathroom in it. We lived relatively poorly. Five families lived in this apartment: three rooms were occupied by Jewish families, and two by Russian families. Before the war there was no anti-Semitism in our apartment. My parents were friends mainly with Russians. Mother again got a job at a food store and had to work all the time so my brother and I were brought up and educated by Grandma Evgenia.