Mousepads and Memoirs

Beth Counihan, English
Project Website: Mousepads and Memoirs

Heidi Donskoi (a pseudonym) was born in 1921 in the Bronx, to Russian Jewish immigrants. She attended Hunter College in the Bronx (now Lehman College) and during World War II, worked for the Voice of America radio station. After her marriage, she worked as an elementary school secretary. Heidi and her husband David moved to Stuyvesant Town in 1977, where she still resides. An avid theatergoer, Heidi enjoys an occasional visit to Atlantic City and also does volunteer work. Heidi uses the Internet to read book and theatre reviews, to check on the weather and see whats playing at the movies.All images illustrating Heidi’s memoirs are archival pictures; she did not want personal photos on the site.