before that: "Mikhail Brin decided to study mathematics instead, and was offered a place although the entry exams for Jews were sat separately, in rooms that we

before that: "Mikhail Brin decided to study mathematics instead, and was offered a place although the entry exams for Jews were sat separately, in rooms that were notoriously known as "the gas chambers." In 1970, he graduated with distinction." -- http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/google-co-founder-my-family-left-russia-because-of-anti-semitism-1.246045 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/google-co-founder-...