Mrs. Oswald. Names?
Mr. Rankin. Yes, please.
Mrs. Oswald. My mother was Clogia Vasilyevna Proosakova. She was a laboratory assistant.
Mr. Rankin. And your father?
Mrs. Oswald. And I had a stepfather. I had no father. I never knew him.
Mr. Rankin. Who did you live with as a child?
Mrs. Oswald. With my stepfather, with my mother, and sometimes with my grandmother—grandmother on my mother's side.
Mr. Rankin. Did you live with your grandparents before you went back to live with your mother and your stepfather?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I lived with my grandmother until I was approximately five years old.
Mr. Rankin. And then you moved to live with your mother and your stepfather, did you?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. And was that in Leningrad?
Mrs. Oswald. After the war, we lived in Moldavia for some time. After the war it was easier to live there, better to live there. And then we returned to Leningrad where we lived with my stepfather's mother—also with my half brother and half sister.
Mr. Rankin. What was your stepfather's business?
Mrs. Oswald. He was an electrician in a power station in Leningrad.
Mr. Rankin. Did you have brothers and sisters?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. How many?
Mrs. Oswald. One brother, one sister—from my mother's second marriage.
Mr. Rankin. How old were they?
Mrs. Oswald. How old are they, or were they?
Mr. Rankin. Are they—I mean in comparison with your age. Were they three or four years older than you?
Mrs. Oswald. My brother is 5 years younger than I am. My sister is probably 9 years younger than I am. About four years between brother and sister.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know whether your stepfather was a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. That is, you don't know, or you know he was not?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I know that he was not a member.
Mr. Rankin. Did you live for a period with your mother alone?
Mrs. Oswald. No. After my mother's death, I continued to live with my stepfather, and later went to live in Minsk, with my uncle—my mother's brother.
Mr. Rankin. What was your stepfather's name?
Mrs. Oswald. Alexandr Ivanovich Medvedev.
Mr. Rankin. When did you leave the home of your stepfather?
Mrs. Oswald. In 1961. No—1959.
Mr. Rankin. What was your grandfather's occupation?
Mrs. Oswald. On my mother's side?
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mrs. Oswald. He was a ship's captain.
Mr. Rankin. Was he a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Oswald. No. He died shortly after the war.
Mr. Rankin. Which war?
Mrs. Oswald. Second.
Mr. Rankin. Did you get along well with your grandparents?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, I was their favorite.
Mr. Rankin. Did you get along with your stepfather?
Mrs. Oswald. No. I was not a good child. I was too fresh with him.
Mr. Rankin. Did your mother and your stepfather move to Zguritsa?
Mrs. Oswald. That is in Moldavia, where we lived. That is after the war. It was a very good life there. They still had some kulaks, a lot of food, and we lived very well.
After the war, people lived there pretty well, but they were dekulakized subsequently.
By the way, I don't understand all of that, because these people worked with their own hands all their lives. I was very sorry when I heard that everything had been taken away from them and they had been sent somewhere to Siberia where after living in the south it would be very cold.
Mr. Rankin. Did your mother have any occupation?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, laboratory assistant—I said that.
Mr. Rankin. Was she a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall when your mother died?
Mrs. Oswald. In 1957.
Mr. Rankin. Did you receive a pension after your mother's death?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. How much was it?
Mrs. Oswald. All children received pensions.
We received for it 3520 rubles, the old rubles.
Mr. Rankin. Was that called a children's pension?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. It was paid up to majority, up to the age of 18.
Mr. Rankin. And was it paid to you directly or to your stepfather?
Mrs. Oswald. It was paid to me directly.
Mr. Rankin. Did your brother and sister get a similar pension?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Did your stepfather adopt you?
Mrs. Oswald. No, I was not adopted.
Mr. Rankin. What was your relationship with your half brother? Did you get along with him?
Mrs. Oswald. I loved them very much, and they loved me.
Mr. Rankin. And your half sister, too?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. They are very good children. Not like me.
Mr. Rankin. Will you tell us what schools you went to?
Mrs. Oswald. At first I went to school in Moldavia, and later in Leningrad, in a girl's school and then after finishing school I studied in a pharmaceutical institute—pharmaceutical school, rather than institute.
Mr. Rankin. Where was the pharmaceutical school?
Mrs. Oswald. In Leningrad.
Mr. Rankin. Did you go through high school before you went to the pharmaceutical school?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. Do you recall the names of any of your teachers?
Mrs. Oswald. Dmitry Rossovsky. I remember the director of the school, Nadelman Matvey Akimovich. It is hard to remember now. I have already forgotten. I have had good teachers. They treated me very well, they helped me after my mother died. Knowing my difficult nature, they approached me very pedagogically. But now I would have changed that nature.
Mr. Rankin. Were you a good student?
Mrs. Oswald. I was capable but lazy. I never spent much time studying. You know, everything came to me very easily. Sometimes my ability saved me. My language, you know—I talk a lot, and get a good grade.
Mr. Rankin. Did you work part-time while you were going to school?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes. The money which I received on the pension was not enough, and therefore I had to work as well as study.
Mr. Rankin. And what did you do in working?
Mrs. Oswald. At first I worked in a school cafeteria, school lunchroom. This was good for me, because I also got enough to eat that way.
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