Eva R. was born in 1919 in a village not far from Dnipro. She studied medicine and found herself drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941. Eva served at Stalingrad and by 1945 she had been promoted to the rank of major. She ended the war in Berlin walking through Adolf Hitler’s chancellery.

Jane Bertish in London reads Eva’s story, which is based on an interview conducted by Ella Levitskaya in 2004.