Evacuation 1941

Period

1941 (outbreak of war; notebook insert on 16 October 1941 in Moscow) and the following months of evacuation / life in the east (Kuybyshev in the daughter’s account). Full family departure and return dates are not stated more precisely than the manuscript allows.

Places

  • Family Moscow
  • Kuybyshev (now Samara) — evacuation city in Tatyana’s narrative (school, daily life, hunger)
  • Return toward Moscow — passes and the road home (see the RU chapter “School and war”)

Participants

Photographs

Notebook page on the war of 1941 — evacuation (family scan).

Notebook page on the war of 1941 — evacuation (family scan).

Sources

Handwritten notebook. The day 16 October 1941 comes from the insert about panic in Moscow (mother’s recollection). Other timing follows the continuous narrative without false precision.