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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

So this would be, the impact of the Holocaust would-wouldn'tit?

Absolutely! Absolutely.

And what about other parts of your life? Did it affect...

We never separated. We never. When we graduated uh, medical schoolwe were-there's a long story if you want to. I don't know. When we graduated-Igraduated-medical school lasted six years, from '49 to '55. That was the uh,there was no pre-med or med. They're different, different things there. So,medical school. And in Russia everything, although Stalin died already butthey, the system didn't change that much. Especially vis-á-vis theJews. In the, in the, in the fifties during my being in, in, in medical school-youdidn't ask me-the anti-Semitism was much worse, you know. Anti-Semitism wasworse and they when-and they uh, even in '55 when I graduated. Before thegrad...usually we got the diploma in June. But in April uh, there was a so-calledcommission.

Doctors Plot.

What?