Tag #151017 - Interview #78412 (Frieda Portnaya)

When we arrived home my father and brother had already received call-up papers from the recruiting office. My father was 44 and the age limit for the army was 45. We said our farewells to my father in the yard of School 124, where all the new recruits were gathered. Misha, along with other young people, was sent to Donbass to harvest the crops. They were trying to save the younger people and sent them to the East rather than to the front. My father’s military unit was sent to Lubny. Somewhere on the way my father met Misha and gave him the photographs that he had with him.