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Testimony of Ilya Yechiel Erenburg, born in Bobruysk, Belorussia, 1915, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier

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Testimony of Ilya Yechiel Erenburg, born in Bobruysk, Belorussia, 1915, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier From a traditional family; family history after the Bolshevik Revolution; arrest; release. Outbreak of the war; drafted into the Red Army, 1941; displays of antisemitism by Red Army soldiers; liberation. Unsuccessful attempt to illegally cross the border at Lwow, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1972.

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- life of the family in Rowne; life during the revolution and the civil war; organization of an armed Jewish unit to protect Jews and their property; battle with a Ukrainian gang; victory and care for Jewish wounded; help and protection of the city's Jews from the White forces; lack of food and water; cholera epidemic; death of his father from cholera in 1919; occupation of the city by the Red Army; occupation of the city by the Polish army in 1920; uprooting of Russian culture by the Polish authorities (as a result of which his mother could not make use of her education and knowledge of the Russian language);...

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