The Tifos Train Station in Tashkent

The Central train station in Tashkent is a big modern building. It's on the very side that the old station would have been, and what kind of state would people have been in when they arrived here? They've been traveling for months. There are stories of people who had already arrived, perhaps coming to the station to entertain or perhaps somehow smooth that uneasy moment. The reception was incredible. Once it was a new year concert, there were Jewish performers too. We decided to do a song which was loved by everyone and a Roma dance was accompanying it too. Maria Kotlerova was in her 20s when she was an actress. She remembered that Solomon Michost, director of