Certificate belonging to Boris Segal confirming the untimely termination of his studies in the fifth grade at the Almetyevo School, due to his return to Latvia, 07 May 1945

Certificate belonging to Boris Segal confirming the untimely termination of his studies in the fifth grade at the Almetyevo School, due to his return to Latvia, 07 May 1945 Comments by the person submitting the material: Boris Segal was born in Daugavpils, 31 March 1933; 8 years old at the outbreak of the war; escape with his parents to Preili following air-raids on the strategic railroad station in Daugavpils; life in Daugavpils, until 27 June 1941; increasing fequency of air-raids on Latvia and escape of the family to the East; life on the road for approximately 300 kms, riding on horses bought from a Latvian farmer; escape to Velikiye Luki; escape with his family to Kazan and from there to Bugulma; life in Bugulma, until 1942; draft of his father into the Red Army, March 1942; escape together with his family to Almetyevo, May 1942; life in Almetyevo, until 1945; end of the war. Return to Daugavpils together with his mother and his sister who was born during the evacuation; death of his father, Don Segal, at the front, December 1942.