 His family survived by a chance, but remained homeless until Korney Chukovsky learned about it and helped them get a new flat.During the first month of war Amalrik gathered a group of those few animators left in the city, including Olga and Nikolai Khodataev, and they produced several anti-Hitler sketches that were released under the "Kino-Circus" name in 1942.Soon after he was sent to the frontline and ended up in a hospital.