Troops: Technical troops (KhV, ZhDV, AV, RTV, DV, topographic). As early as September 1, 1941 Case's mother Aliya and two other employees continued to perform their duties, but personal belongings were already sent to Leningrad, evacuation to Leningrad from Vyborg was in full swing. There had not yet been any bombshells, but the glow from the side of Leningrad could be seen every day. In the morning, nothing had yet foretold the beginning of the battles. At night, a train carrying the wounded was heading towards the city, accompanied by an armored train and at the Repino-Ollilo pass it was fired at fom the forest. The order came to leave the station. And that same night, on foot, they went towards Beloostrov station, and from there to Leningrad. The first bombing their mother experienced happened at night at the Kushelevka station, where they lived in the carriages. Then they were bombed very often. At first, they ran to the bomb shelter, and then they got used to it and started the gramophone so they would not hear the bombs exploding. Then, already on Ladoga, she exchanged her favorite gramophone for bread. At that time, they were focused on defense work: digging barrier trenches and sawing trees to camouflage objects. On October 10, 1941, there was an order to send her to the Ladoga Lake station, where near the station Moriye, the crossing was already functioning. Food was shipped from barges and sent to the station Ladoga Lake, and from there to Leningrad. From Leningrad the equipment of the Kirov plant was evacuated, fuel was brought from a big land. There they also lived in cars, there was a lot of work, echelons went there and here, but when they had a free minute, they gathered together, sang songs to the guitar, sometimes they were shown movies. And then one day, during the movie, the club car caught fire and panic started. Many people managed to jump out, and one woman, who was like a burning torch, ran to her mother, embraced her neck, and her coat caught fire. The woman was dragged away by a military officer who had arrived on time. Mom says that for a long time this woman's eyes were in her memory. The bombing almost did not stop. First, flares were fired, and then bombs were dropped. Mom told how the military saved her life. Another bombing started as they were walking along the road. He pushed her hard into a ditch, and he wanted to take cover on the other side of the road, but before he could, only a funnel was left. As Mom says, it was scary, but they had already got used to it so much that they did not always even run for cover. When she tells us what she had to endure, among other things, the blood gets cold. She met her family only in 1945, when they returned from Latvia, to where they were moved by the Germans.