Tag #146001 - Interview #78192 (Iosif Bursuk)

On 22nd June 1941 [the beginning of the so-called Great Patriotic War] [5] Germany unleashed the war against the Soviet country. Our town was located near the Romanian border and within ten days the town was occupied by Romanian troops. Many people evacuated. We stayed at home: there were three small children in the family - six, nine and eleven years old - and my mother was ill. My parents decided to stay. At that time we didn't know about all those horrific things that Germans did to Jews.