Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Yakov volunteered for the war. In the very first month of his service, he got into fierce combats on Ukraine. The grandmother, his wife, received a notice that he was missing. Some time later, his friend, a colleague, with whom he volunteered and served his last days, returned and informed his wife that Yakov was seen wounded, not killed. My grandmother had received «killed in action” notice, and a little time later she was given a small message written from her husband: "Wounded, but alive, do not worry. Your Jacob." Neither the date nor the place where the news came from was specified. They only reported that the note was written by a wounded soldier from the evacuation hospital. _x000D_ They lived in Krasnodon. One of the neighbors reported that the grandmother was the wife of a Communist. Nazis, who had already occupied Krasnodon, were looking for the grandmother and promised to carve a red star on her back. The grandmother entrusted her five children to neighbors, asked them to come and check on their mother-in-law (from a neighboring village), and went to look for her husband. For several months, my grandmother went to the front-line hospitals, looking for her husband or at least some information about him. All searches yielded no results. When she returned to the children, two younger ones had starved. _x000D_ The war ended, years passed, and now my grandmother is gone. But until her last days she believed that grandfather was alive. She said: "Until I see his grave, he is alive!"