Tag #144803 - Interview #83317 (Margarita Farka )

Feiga was considered a person subject to the draft. [Editor’s note: In the USSR women with secondary and higher medical education were registered at the military Committee and were subject to the draft in wartime]. When in 1939 World War II broke out, she was summoned to military service. She took part in the ‘liberation’ of western Ukraine [3] and later in the war with Finland [4]. Thus, she participated in the war since 1939. She served in the ‘medsanbat’ [medical sanitary battalion] attached to a military airdrome during the war with Germany. She was in the war from 1941 to 1945 [5], obtained the rank of a major of medical service and was awarded for service in battle with the Order of the Red Star [6] and the Order of the Patriotic War [7], and various medals.