S. Afansyeva from Kerch mourns the death of her 18-year-old son, who was shot by Germans when they were forced to evacuate the city in February 1942. In 1942 the Germans occupied the city again. The Red Army lost over 160,000 men, either killed or taken POW at the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

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