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Personal documents and medals of honor of Elya Goman, born in Kalinkovichi, Belorussia, 1923, a Red Army soldier who was in combat at the front and participated in the battle of Stalingrad, 08/1942-05/1945 Personal documents, including an original army notepad from the war period and confirmation of his service in the Red Army including being wounded, 29/01/1943 and 03/08/1944; witness died in Israel, 28/11/1991.

File Number : 365

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Notepad

Language : Russian

Letters written by Yevsey Volovik, a soldier in the Red Army, to his family in Belovodskoye, 1942-1943, before his death at the front in Dolgiy Yar, 09 September 1943

Letters written by Yevsey Volovik, a soldier in the Red Army, to his family in Belovodskoye, 1942-1943, before his death at the front in Dolgiy Yar, 09 September 1943 Yevsey Volovik, was born in Putivl, 04 March 1924, and took part in the battle in Stalingrad during his service in the Red Army.

File Number : 1531

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letters written by Moise Weissband from the front, 1942, before he died in battle at Stalingrad, 19/12/1942

Letters written by Moise Weissband from the front, 1942, before he died in battle at Stalingrad, 19/12/1942 Included in the file: - Poem written by Luba Rozenshtein.

File Number : 1378

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Letter

Language : Russian

Reports regarding the situation in Central Asia, based on interrogations of Soviet POWs

Reports regarding the situation in Central Asia, based on interrogations of Soviet POWs - Situation at the rear in Uzbekizhtan, economic difficulties primarily due to the arrival of Jewish refugees; - The front in Stalingrad; - Activities of the Communist Party within the Red Army, activities of the NKWD to maintain the stability of the regime in the Soviet Union; - Military reports - Battles between the Romanian Army and the Red Army, with maps attached.

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Ilia Kogan, born in Zaporshye, Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Voroshilovgrad and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Ilia Kogan, born in Zaporshye, Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Voroshilovgrad and in hiding German occupation of Voroshilovgrad, 1941; escape of his family; life until October 1942; escape of his family before the time specified for them to report to the stadium; in hiding with his mother in a Cossack village; awareness of the villagers that the witness and his mother are Jewish; transfer to Stalingrad, April 1943. Life in Stalingrad until 1949; aliya to Israel, 1991.

File Number : 7169

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Efraim Weichselfisch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as an officer near Warsaw, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Berlin and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Weichselfisch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as an officer near Warsaw, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Berlin and other places Life before the war; Hebrew education; move to Kutno and Lodz, 1935; studies agronomy at the University of Vilna; drafted into the Polish Army as an officer; Beitar activities. Participation in the defence of Warsaw at the beginning of the war; transfer to Dobryn; escape from captivity to Vilna, September 1939; drafted into the Red Army; combat in Stalingrad; severely wounded and hospitalization in Moscow; return to army service; joins a Polish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Farber, born in Rowne, regarding his service in the Red Army from the fall of 1940 and his injury in the Battle of Stalingrad

- The destruction of the synagogue as a result of the German Luftwaffe air-raids; a Jewish woman perished in the air-raids; entry of the Red Army into Rowne; annexation to the Soviet Union and its impact on Jewish life in the city; confiscation of his store by Soviet authorities and receiving an eviction order from Rowne; move to Truskawiec; enlisting into the Red Army, autumn 1940; details of his status in the army; call to the front, 22 June 1941; battles he participated in against the German army; fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad, his injury in battle, 28 March 1942, and amputation of his leg; his...

File Number : 1801

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Nikolay Nison Khaykin regarding his experiences in an evacuation in the Stalingrad region in 1941-1944

Memoirs of Nikolay Nison Khaykin regarding his experiences in an evacuation in the Stalingrad region in 1941-1944 Family life in one of the Jewish colonies in the Dnepropetrovsk province; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; evacuation in early August 1941; arrival in the Tormosin locality; his father's conscription into the Red Army; continuation of the evacuation and reaching Luy; the return of his father after being wounded; the family's escape to the Nizhne Chirskaya area; the approach of the Wehrmacht in 1942; evacuation to Kapustin Yar; stay in Kapustin Yar and Elton;...

File Number : 11997

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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