I was so pleased to read your article, Elena. I have a few photographs of Dr. Raissa Berg from the time she was at UW Madison.. As an art student I cleaned apartments at the Kennedy Manor where she lived. Each Saturday she welcomed me,"Come and beautify my life!" She would make lunch while I carefully cleaned around her small glass and paper art constructions. We would eat together and discussed many things: politics, "Uncle Andre" Sakarov,why she believed capitalism eventually leads to socialism and socialism leads to capitalism... and her family. My friend and I took her to the airport to begin her trip to present her research on Drosiphila in Tel Aviv and Frankfurt, in 1979 or 80. She believed someone had taken her research results and pretended they had done the work. She told me about the brave woman, R. Berg in Tel Aviv who pretended to be Raissa, passing on letters from Raissa inviting her daughter Masha, married to a nuclear physicist, to come to live in Israel as this was the only way to get Masha and her family out of Russia. I went to visit her other daughter Liza Filandrov in Paris and met other Russian refugees in 1981. I am drawing a picture of her to submit to the art show: "Heroes Surround Us" ,Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI please contact me 608-772-1357
I was so pleased to read your article, Elena. I have a few photographs of Dr. Raissa Berg from the time she was at UW Madison.. As an art student I cleaned apartments at the Kennedy Manor where she lived. Each Saturday she welcomed me,"Come and beautify my life!" She would make lunch while I carefully cleaned around her small glass and paper art constructions. We would eat together and discussed many things: politics, "Uncle Andre" Sakarov,why she believed capitalism eventually leads to socialism and socialism leads to capitalism... and her family. My friend and I took her to the airport to begin her trip to present her research on Drosiphila in Tel Aviv and Frankfurt, in 1979 or 80. She believed someone had taken her research results and pretended they had done the work. She told me about the brave woman, R. Berg in Tel Aviv who pretended to be Raissa, passing on letters from Raissa inviting her daughter Masha, married to a nuclear physicist, to come to live in Israel as this was the only way to get Masha and her family out of Russia. I went to visit her other daughter Liza Filandrov in Paris and met other Russian refugees in 1981. I am drawing a picture of her to submit to the art show: "Heroes Surround Us" ,Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI please contact me 608-772-1357