Tag #148835 - Interview #91312 (Sarah Rutkauskene)

The four of us lived together until the New Year of 1942. Janina and my husband worked in kolkhoz [11], and got skimpy trudodni [12]. Our life was hard like it was with most fugitives. Husband and sister also got bread cards [13] for working people and I was given 200 gramps as I was dependent. Janina and Benis gave all they could to me as I was a nursing mother. Benis was eager to go in the lines. He volunteered to join 16 Lithuanian division [14] as soon as it was founded. He was a rank and file in the artillery. In January 1942 he went in Balakhna, where the above-mentioned division was being formed. In about 3 months Janina also joined Lithuanian division.