Testimony of Yuri Sapozhnikov, born in Dymer, Ukraine, 1906, regarding his experiences as a Red Army physician in Belorussia, Poland and Denmark

Testimony of Yuri Sapozhnikov, born in Dymer, Ukraine, 1906, regarding his experiences as a Red Army physician in Belorussia, Poland and Denmark Life until the Bolshevik revolution, 1917; family move to Kiev; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; disappointment from the Zionist movement; life in a Jewish agricultural area in Kalinen; agricultural work; drafted into the Red Army; joins the Communist party; work as a farm manager; studies medicine in Kiev; service as a military physician during the Winter War against Finland, 1939-1940; outbreak of the war against Germany, June 1941; service as a military physician and manager of a military hospital; military service in Belorussia, Finland and Denmark; end of the war. Return to the Soviet Union; service as a military physician in Tashkent and Fergana; release from the army; aliya to Israel, 1973.