Tag #155489 - Interview #94697 (Larisa SHYHMAN)

It was fearful in 1937, wow… People were taken away. There were searches in our home: they were looking for gold in Jewish homes. We were an ordinary family, but they still searched, turning the whole apartment upside down. It felt terrible. My grandmother woke up and there were NKVD officers standing over her demanding gold. Later the situation was resolved, nobody was arrested… I think they didn’t since my uncle Mikhail was working in NKVD. But still, we got so scared then… All we had were these golden earrings with little emeralds – I always wear them: my aunt gave them to me as my wedding gift.