Tag #147283 - Interview #78416 (Meyer Markhasin)

I entered the 1styear of the institute, and on vacations visited my parents in Borovichi, where I got acquainted with a Russian girl Zoya Solomonova. It turned out that this girl had just finished the tenth form and tried to enter a medical institute, but failed to pass her tests.  So she entered our institute, the faculty of building materials, and she appeared to be my fellow student. When my sisters disclosed to my parents that I was courting her, and I was on a vacation to Borovichi, father told me that I should tear off any relations with her, because I was a Jew, and she – a Russian, and it was against our national tradition. He even fell down on his knees before me, begging me almost with tears in his eyes. That scene touched me so much that I broke off with her. In summer in Borovichi I didn’t communicate with her.