"The family was large and friendly, no one could even imagine that our peaceful life would be destroyed by the war," my grandmother recalled. Before the war, they lived in Belarus, lived poorly, and in 1940 came to the village of Jerzy, Pervomaisky district, for recruitment. Yevgenia Semyonovna had 4 brothers and 3 sisters, according to her, as soon as war was declared, three brothers Stepan, Ivan, and Volodya Kasutskie went to the front. It is hard to remember those terrible days, many things are erased from memory, so my grandmother remembers only that her brothers died the death of the brave in the first years of the war, that they were only a little over twenty, that their parents cried very much when they received the funeral notices. I learned from the Book of Memory that all three brothers were called up by the Pyshkino-Troitsky RVC. Vladimir, born in 1923, went missing in August 1943. Ivan, born in 1922, was killed in action on July 11, 1944 in the Kaliningrad region in the village of Dukhnovo, and Stepan, the eldest brother, was killed in action in August 1944." From the first days of the war, many teenagers started working. My grandmother was only 12 years old ... in summer she worked on a collective farm, in the fields. "I was both a cook and a trailer driver, and I harvested wheat," my grandmother recalled, "I worked the same way as adult women, I was ashamed to lag behind them, so we tried our best." In winter, both in cold and bad weather, she worked at logging sites, cutting branches. "It was scary in the forest, it was difficult to hold an axe in your hands, and you also had to cut off the twigs from the logs," says the grandmother,"but, holding back tears, we helped our mothers." Yevgenia Semyonovna said that in those terrible years it was very difficult, and not only because they did hard men's work, but also because there was very little food, sometimes they ate what they could, sometimes they even starved. So they did, sometimes unbearable work for children for 6 years. And we lived the dreams, dreams that the war would soon end, our brothers would return from the front, and we, still very young, would just run and just play children's games. "We learned about the victory at 4 am. Of course, we were not asleep anymore. I jumped, we kissed and cried. And we sang and danced, " - this is what Yevgenia Semyonovna told about the long-awaited day, not hiding her tears. For her hard work during the war for the benefit of the Motherland, she was awarded the medal ""For Valorous Work during the Great Patriotic War”. She has many awards: "Veteran of Labor ", "Winner of socialist competitions", "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "55 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"."60 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", she was solemnly awarded a medal "65 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War". She didn’t live to see the 75th anniversary of victory.