Tag #144139 - Interview #92092 (Samuel Eirus)

In 1941 we hoped to start our school studies. But one clever local official decided to evacuate children of different ages to the Leningrad suburbs (later I read about it in a newspaper). Children were placed in pioneer camps [14]. It happened in August, possibly authorities were afraid of bombardments. I guess they believed that the war would be finished quickly (like the Soviet-Finnish War [15]) and children would return home soon. But in fact everything turned out tragically. I remember that in the pioneer camp we spent about 2 months.