I owned nothing. It was. of course. difficult to imagine me in the role of the family breadwinner. even though later on I did have to bear this burdenin circumstances much harder than they would have been had we left at the right time. But meanwhile we thought that emigration was justified only in the case of families that had an adequate number of capable men to earn money and to conquer new lands. trying to convince ourselves that everything could yet turn out all right for us even here. That was a terrible mistake. and we are paying for it up to this day. And so we pretended that emigration did not exist at all. and I proudly began to apply to college. And not to some ordinary institute (Soviet equivalent of college). but to theater school. But thats not allthe film department. which admitted 56 students annually. had 4060 applicants for each opening that year. and never in its history had it ever admitted a single Jew.
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