Mr. Rankin. Did you select Minsk as a place to go and work yourself?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes.
Mr. Rankin. You were not assigned there, then?
Mrs. Oswald. No.
Mr. Rankin. Could you have selected other places that you wished to go to and work?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, but the registration is very difficult. In Russia you cannot settle in a large city if you are not registered.
Mr. Rankin. What do you mean by that?
Mrs. Oswald. If I lived in Leningrad, I had the right to work there. But if someone would come there from a village he would not have the right to work, because he was not registered and he would not be permitted to. But to move from a larger city to a smaller one, then they may register, such as Minsk.
Mr. Rankin. By register, do you mean that if you want to go to a place like Leningrad, you had to be recorded some way in the city?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes, that is, registered in the police department.