Rita Kogan
December 12, 2022
I was born Rita Orlovetsky on December 25, 1937, in Kiev, theonly child of Arkady Orlovetsky and Dora Khanokh. My mother’sparents were Leiba and Basia
I was born Rita Orlovetsky on December 25, 1937, in Kiev, theonly child of Arkady Orlovetsky and Dora Khanokh. My mother’sparents were Leiba and Basia
I was born on May 28, 1935, in Kiev, Ukraine, to losif and Rakhil(Blankman) Kogan. My father was a Soviet governmentemployee, and my mother was
We were born Nelli and Rema Goldin on October 20, 1928, in Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia. Our parents were Semyon and Nekhama (Reer) Goldin,
Handwritten letter in Russian on letterhead from Yakov Khariton on the Eastern front (Red Army) to his wife, Raisa, who was evacuated to Shalya. There
Handwritten letter in Russian, from a Central Navy Archive, certifying Olga Schinder for her military service. Odessa, Ukraine, February 25, 1981.
My family’s evacuation during the first days of the Great Patriotic War was probably not much different than the evacuation stories of the most Soviet
I was ten when the Great Patriotic War began. Very alarming news came from the front line, and our family began thinking about evacuating from
When the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started, my father, Morduch Isaakovich Korobov, and my mother, Sarah Solomonovna Korobova, worked at the bicycle factory in
Before World War II our family lived in the small town (shtetl) of Lyubar, located just southwest of Zhitomir, Ukraine. I do not have any
Evacuation to the Soviet Interior The large-scale relocation of Soviet citizens, industry, educational and cultural institutions, agricultural produce, and other resources to the vast Soviet
