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On 26 June I passed my exam in physics. We didn’t consider evacuation at the beginning. We thought the war was to be over within two weeks. We believed that our troops would just defeat Germans and that was it. However, when our government realized the war was going to last longer it took a decision for evacuation. My father’s plant evacuated. They disassembled all equipment, loaded it on a train and shipped to Saratov. My father was appointed supervisor of this shipment and went to Saratov. We went by boat.
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Bertha Isayeva