70 years "Doctors' affairs"

"Kommersant" publishes the memories of Lyubov Vovsi, whose family suffered during this "business":

“On January 13, 1953, I came to work without reading newspapers in the morning and not listening to the radio. In the evening, the boss called me and asked what happened. And he said that on the radio they reported about the conspiracy of the "killer doctors". Already on the way home, I read in a list of "conspirators", who was the first to go to my dad in a newspaper "Pravda". Two days later in Moscow they took my mother. Nobody wrote anything about this and did not talk anything, the wives were not particularly interested in anyone.

The only bright point was that our friends did not abandon us, on the contrary, they were very worried. We ourselves hid from everyone. When I was fired from the Television Institute on January 19, I told my colleagues that I would somehow let me know that I was still alive on the 19th of each month. And so I went to some corner near the institute and stood while one of them sees me. Thank God it happened only twice, in February and March, April 19, it was no longer needed.

For the week that passed between the publication in Pravda and my dismissal, no one told me a single word - everyone pretended that they had not heard anything. Then I was officially called to the commission to dismiss and fired "for the inability to use in a regime institution." It was true: it was no longer possible to use me at this institute, I myself reported at work that my dad was arrested. I was given a full calculation, they issued a work book in the personnel department - everything is like with normal dismissal. 50 Jews were fired with me. There were rumors in Moscow that all Jews would soon be sent to the Far East, that wagons were already standing on the spare tracks. ”

I wonder if they will celebrate a glorious anniversary on Lubyanka?