Klara Grigorievna Rinkina, now 91, served as a Red Army medic during what Russians still call the Great Patriotic War (photo 1). A postcard sent from the front in December 1943 by Ida Ferer to her mother, sharing that she received an Order of the Red Star Award (photo 2). Kiev infantry school cadet Semyon Rabovsky (laying down, center) with classmates, 1941 (photo 3).