The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

In the Army
Yelizaveta Dubinskaya
Photo taken in: Kuibyshev, Russia 1942
Interviewer: Zhanna Litinskaya
Me, in military uniform, with my sister Manya. I was visiting her
during the redeployment of the front. I volunteered to go to
the front and served as the commander of a medical unit on
the front lines. I carried the wounded out of the fire on my
shoulders, thus ruining my own health.
Lidia Korotina
Photo taken in: Panaveshys, Lithuania 1945
Interviewer: Ella Orlikova
My aunt Serafima Korotina when she was in Panavezhys,
Lithuania, in 1945. She was my father’s younger
sister and my grandfather’s favorite. She became an
excellent doctor after graduating from the Odessa
Medical University and served as a captain in the army
medical service. She didn’t have a family of her own
and took care of my grandmother, who died in 1943 in
evacuation in the village of Tikhoretskaya.
Mirrah Kogan
Photo taken in: Kuibyshev, Russia, 1943
Interviewer: Natalia Fomina
Me, first on the right, with my parents and my friend Zhenia
Lerner. I served as a doctor during the Second World War.
When my company was encircled near Kharkiv, Zhenia and I
escaped captivity by pretending to be civilians. We wandered
for eight months until we reached the front lines. After an
investigation by the military we went to Kuibyshev to see my
parents.
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