Mr. Liebeler. To Stalingrad?
Mrs. Ray. Yes; take me 13 day to go home. When I coming home I staying there just few day and my brother coming and war started and after war started, I wrote letter to this government place where you have to write that you like to stay at home not to go back since war started that I like to staying at home with my mother, not to go back in Siberia, and that's where I stay. That's how come.
Mr. Liebeler. You were there when the Germans arrived in Stalingrad?
Mrs. Ray. Yes; when Germans come there.
Mr. Liebeler. So, you would have been studying at college in Leningrad from about 1937, is that right, to 1941?
Mrs. Ray. In 1941 when I coming home and just about 4 years.
Mr. Liebeler. So, it would have been about 1937 or 1938 that you started at the university in Leningrad?
Mrs. Ray. Well, wait minute, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941; see, 3½ year and they constantly, every second year they send you some place, you know, practice.
Mr. Liebeler. So, the time you were in Siberia was part of a practice program in connection with your college?
Mrs. Ray. No; at this time that's my job. That's where I have to go.