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Diary of B. Rudnitzkiy from Gomel, regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Sumy region, in the Zhitomir region, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, and more

Diary of B. Rudnitzkiy from Gomel, regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Sumy region, in the Zhitomir region, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, and more Conscription into the Red Army as a political commissar in June 1941; outbreak of war on 22 June 1941; life in the army and participation in battles in Sumy province in 1941; search for his family members during his service, whom he had lost contact with after the outbreak of the war; receiving the Order of the Red Star decoration on 12 September 1942; receiving letters from family members in October 1942; combat injury and death of his friend...

File Number : 3039

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Russian

Documentation of the National Archives of the Belarusian Republic, 1939-1941

History: Annexation of the area of what is Belorussia today by the Russian Empire in 1793. In January 1919, the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. Following the Soviet-Polish war in 1920, the western areas of Belorussia, including the cities of Brest, Hrodna, Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Pinsk, were incorporated into Poland, while the east remained a part of the Soviet Union. Following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement, the Red Army conquered eastern Poland in September 1939 and returned to itself the areas that it had lost in the past.The German Army crossed over and invaded the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Curriculum Vitae (cv), List of Partisans, List of Officials, List of Jews, Documentary, Names, Names of Partisans, Names of Jewish Partisans, Personal Card File, Form, Finding Aids

Language : Russian

Manuscript of a book about Jewish soldiers in the Red Army by Fedor Davydovich Sverdlov

Manuscript of a book about Jewish soldiers in the red Army. Fedor Davydovich Sverdlov: In the ranks of the brave - military exploits of Jewish heroes of the Soviet Union (n Russian); published Moscow 1992. Typescript of a book with short biographies of 130 Jewish soldiers of the Red Army with handwritten lists of Jewish soldiers and officers.

File Number : 981

Type of Material : Book

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of David Proektor, born in Zlatopol, Ukraine in the Soviet Union in 1922, regarding his experiences in Novo Mirogrod, in the Red Army in Leningrad and in Vladivostok

Testimony

Testimony of David Proektor, born in Zlatopol, Ukraine in the Soviet Union in 1922, regarding his experiences in Novo Mirogrod, in the Red Army in Leningrad and in Vladivostok His early childhood in Korobchino and childhood in Novo Mirogrod, in a secular family; hunger in Ukraine during the 1930s; studies in a state school in the city; his mother and sister remain in Ukraine; studies in an officer's academy in Leningrad in 1939; start of the war; draft into the Red Army; guarding the property of museums, and transfer to the rear by ship; arrival to Vladivostok; draft of his father into the Red Army; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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