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I cannot remember my mother third brother’s name, but I just have to tell his story. He, his wife Dusia and their children Pavlik and Grisha live in Kiev before the Great Patriotic War [2]. When the war began they left Kiev by foot. German troops were advancing fast. My mother brother’s family stayed in a kolkhoz near Mozdok in the Northern Caucasus. Chairman of the kolkhoz wrote in my brother’s documents that he was Russian (he was fair-haired) and his beautiful wife Dusia Armenian. When German troops came and lined up all Jews, chairman of the kolkhoz dragged them out of the line and explained ‘They are not Jews.
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Bertha Isayeva