"We lived then on the first floor of a small house in Kiev, and I can still recall quite distinctly hearing about a pogrom that was to descend upon us. I didn’t know then, of course, what a pogrom was, but I knew it had something to do with being Jewish and with the rabble that used to surge through town, brandishing knives and huge sticks, screaming 'Christ-killers' as they looked for the Jews and who were now going to do terrible things to me and to my family."