Tag #152977 - Interview #78408 (Lidia Korotina)

I met my future husband at Odessa University. His name was Mikhail Shoihet.. He wrote to his parents and asked them to find out where I was.  They asked their acquaintances in Odessa and someone told them that I was in Samarkand. They came to Samarkand and met with my father. Then they told Misha my address. He began to write me poems and letters.  He asked me to come and visit him. My parents and I went to visit him in August 1942.  He was an instructor in a military unit in Turkmenia, 40 kilometers from the border.  The heat was oppressive there, over 40 degrees Celsius. There was sand all around, not a single tree.  He told me that things were very uncertain and that his unit could be sent to the front  - and so we got married right then, on  August, 8, 1942. To be sure, there was no wedding celebration amid all the war and hunger. We simply registered.