Tag #153440 - Interview #78479 (Irina Lidskaya)

I remember  June 22 (1941), the first day of the war. I remember everyone’s concern, panic, tears, yelling, and the noises all around. My father's school was evacuating to Sverdlovsk in August 1941, and our family left with them all. We left our apartment and everything in it. There was a joke in the family that the only thing Mamma took with her was my chamber pot. Our trip was long. The train was overcrowded, with people standing and sitting.