Letter sent from the front to Yakov Karasik in Tashkent, 18 March 1944, including a document confirming that Yakov Karasik served in the Red Army as a commander of a mortars battalion, 24 January 1943, and his military paybook issued, 18 February 1944

Letter sent from the front to Yakov Karasik in Tashkent, 18 March 1944, including a document confirming that Yakov Karasik served in the Red Army as a commander of a mortars battalion, 24 January 1943, and his military paybook issued, 18 February 1944 Yakov Karasik was born in Bobruysk, Belorussia, 1908; emigration of his mother's family (the Lapidus family) to the United States; Yaakov learns in a "heder" at the age of 6; learns shoemaking from a shoemaker at the age of 6; escape t...