Tag #147066 - Interview #83426 (Piotr Levitas)

At long last I reached Leningrad and was enlisted into the national voluntary army. I was liberating Leningrad from the blockade [9], fought in the hottest places. I participated in the battles at ‘Neva spot’ [‘Neva spot’ was a place where it was practically impossible to survive, only the wounded survived there, because they were taken away and sent to the hospital.] I was wounded and taken to hospital, where I got acquainted with my second wife. Her name was Maria Nikolayevna Avilova, she was Russian. She worked as a therapist in that hospital. Having recovered, I was dismissed from the army as a war invalid in 1944, and in that same year we got married.