Chicago Cold War: Rebecca Fradkin and Anatoliy Usha
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- Created Date
- 2012-03-18
- Description
Married in 1950, Rebecca Fradkin and Anatoliy Usha immigrated to Chicago in 1996, following their daughter, Lydia. Usha is a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) and belonged to an organization in Chicago of one hundred such survivors. Fradkin and Usha were the victims of anti-Semitism in the former Soviet Union, and both were compelled to change their field of employment due to discrimination.
- Creator
Fradkin, Rebecca
Usha, Anatoliy
Alter, Peter
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Cold War
Revolutions
Antisemitism
Stalinist
Perestroika
Communism - Format
- Audio file: 1:34:32 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
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- Chicago citation style
- Fradkin, Rebecca, Usha, Anatoliy, Alter, Peter. Chicago Cold War: Rebecca Fradkin and Anatoliy Usha. 2012-03-18. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/274. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Fradkin, Rebecca, Usha, Anatoliy, Alter, Peter, (2012-03-18) Chicago Cold War: Rebecca Fradkin and Anatoliy Usha. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/274
- MLA citation style
- Fradkin, Rebecca, Usha, Anatoliy, Alter, Peter. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/274>.