Naum Poliak’s older brother Kalman Poliak

Kalman (Klim) Poliak, my older brother. This picture was made in Kiev in 1940.

My parents got married in Fastov in 1921. In 1923 their first child was born - my older brother Kalman (he was called Klim at home) Poliak.

My older brother Kalman (Klim) was mobilized in 1940, before the war, to the NKVD (People's Committee for Interal Affairs) Army. At first he was at the border in Uzbekistan. When the war bean he was transferred to Moscow to the 10th special regiment that was involved .in all operations, related to deportation of the Crimean tatars, chechens, Latvians, Western Ukrainians and Estonians to Siberia and Middle Asia. My brother never wrote me about it during the war ad after the war he didn't like to talk about these tragic events. He finished the war at the Red Square in Moscow. He participated in the Victory Parade. My brother returned to Kiev, got married here and lived in Kiev until the end of his days. He died in 1985.