Tag #114257 - Interview #78243 (Alla Kolton)

In 1941 the war began, and our entire family (except for father) - grandfather Mordukh and grandmother Golda, mother, my brother Grigory and I - evacuated to Pavlodar territory in Kazakhstan even before the beginning of the blockade of Leningrad [8]. Daddy remained in Leningrad and at first served in the anti-aircraft defense troops. Many people were lost at the beginning of the war because the country was not ready for it, and Stalin sent thousands of people - young men - to the front, and they had nothing to fight with - neither tanks, nor planes, not even rifles - therefore all of them got killed. So if you look at the messages sent by the military command units about the death of soldiers, the majority of people were killed during the first months of the war.