Bill Snyder

Tenderloin resident fled the Nazis as a teen, then fought them as a member of the Soviet Red Army

The train steaming east across the Russian heartland was packed with hundreds of refugees and livestock, crammed into every available space in the freezing cars. They clung to the boarding steps, even the roofs. As it fled the onrushing Nazi war machine, the train was attacked from the air. Several cars were destroyed. Fifteen-year-old Yekaterina ...