Tag #155492 - Interview #94697 (Larisa SHYHMAN)

When the war began, my father said from the beginning that all Jews had to leave their homes since Germans would have no mercy toward them. I don’t know how he knew… So, he took us to the station where we boarded a train. He said ‘I’ll be back soon’ and he left and the train departed and we never saw him again. It turned out that my father and uncle went to a military registry office to volunteer to the front and they were recruited to the army immediately. We only heard about it from letters when we arrived in Donbass… Since my father was a high-skilled joiner, he could have a delay from being sent to the front, but he volunteered there. At first, he was near Lubny and we received his letters from there, but then we were on the go again and there were no letters from him. Later we got to know from the archives that he perished in 100 km from Kiev, near Fastov, in 1943.