Letter written by M. I. Konzharov-Melamed, a Red Army soldier and former POW who escaped from a POW camp, to Ilya Ehrenburg

Letter written by M. I. Konzharov-Melamed, a Red Army soldier and former POW who escaped from a POW camp, to Ilya Ehrenburg M. I. Melamed, born in 1916, was taken into captivity near Kiev, September 1941; when he saw the treatment of the Jewish POWs, he understood that he had to hide his Jewishness; he announced that he was an Azeri [Azerbaijani] and chose the false identity of M. I. Konzharov; he worked as a medic in POW camps until 1943; on 04 November 1943 he escaped from the cam...