NKVD Case No. 2870; Russia and the Truth About My Grandfather

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 5, 2004| Author: Mark C. Medish | Copyright information

The 18th of July, 1942, was a hot summer day in Krasnodar, a city in the Russian Caucasus, near the Black Sea. On that day, as my grandfather Mark Nikolaevich Medish was taking a Sunday afternoon stroll along Proletarskaya Street in the center of town not far from home, he was arrested by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.

With that, he became NKVD case No. 2870 -- and disappeared.

I have often wondered what was on my grandfather's mind just before the secret police accosted hi...

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