7. A Decade of War and Reconstruction
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

A children's home teacher, Ekaterina Demina, was on a train to visit her brother in Brest, Belarus, when war broke out on June 22, 1941.She found herself stranded and under German fire in Orsha, Vitebsk, not far from the Rus sian border.Demina had no medical training, but she and several other women helped the wounded, until Demina herself was injured and ended up in a military hospital.Once recovered, she signed up for a short-term nursing course, joined the navy and "saved more than 150 wounde