Tag #144901 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

We survived until 1942, in the hungriest times [12], thanks to my Uncle Kostya. His family was transferred to Leningrad from the pre-Baltic area. He would bring us loafs of bread and other food. We survived and were evacuated. There was a fear that Leningrad would be surrendered, so the order was issued to take away all the children. Mom didn’t want to stay without her kids, and said, ‘Only if I go with them.’ And we, together with Mom, were evacuated to Sverdlovsk region, near Pyshminsky highway, I remember it well. I even remember the street where we lived in a barrack. It was the end of June 1942 – I was 14 years old, Mother – 36.