Tag #150549 - Interview #94447 (Larisa Radomyselskaya)

I worked as an engineer in a construction trust 20 years. In 1974 I got an offer to go to work at the Uzhhorodpribor plant. I got a position of acting chief of the department of capital construction. After few years of work I asked them to appoint me chief of this department, but director called me to his office and said directly: ‘You cannot be chief. Firstly, because you are a woman and secondly, because you are a Jew’. It was stressful for me. This was the first time I faced anti-Semitism. I had never faced any anti-Semitism before. It became difficult for me to come to work, but I understood that I wouldn’t find another job. I worked there until I reached the age of retirement and then I continued to work as an engineer. I left work in 1992.