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Toronto Veterans

The stories of Jewish Soviet veterans of the second world war. Click the links for videos and interviews.

The interviews with Russian Jewish Children of the War was conducted by: Atid Bamidbar Organization in 2016

Aleksey Shtern

Sergeant Major in tank unit: Battle Of Stalingrad, Danzig, And Capture Of…

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Alexei Litvachuk

Communications – Eastern Front, Kishinev, Defense Of Moscow.

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Anna Khalyavskaya

Belarusian Partisan

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Arkadi Novokolsky

Air Force Pilot And Engineer With Long Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiments –…

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Boris Kravitz

Private In Border Detachment – Lithuania, Belarus, Konigsberg: One of 3 Jews…

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David Lebkovich

Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk.

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Efim Feldman

Paramedic In Light Artillery Unit, Participated in Battle of Smolensk, Liberation of…

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Eugene Kats

Polish Partisans, Heavy Machine Gun Division

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Fedor Grinberg

308 Rifles Division, Machine Gunner, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Konigsberg

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Felix Dyman

Jewish Partisans, Zorin’s detachment

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Grigori Genin

Platoon Commander 550 Rifle Regiment Battle of Stalingrad, Fought near Odessa, in…

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Grigory Svirsky

Air Force Mechanic And Gunner Based Near Arctic Sea. Well Known In…

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Iosif Zibenberg

Private in communications platoon in armoured landing division (paratrooper). Stalingrad, Kursk, Liberation…

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Isaak Ashmian

Volunteer Engineer Lieutenant Military Construction Corps, Moscow and Belarusian Front

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Isaak Kogan

Submachine gunner on 2nd Belorussian Front

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Isaak Zarembo

Private 43rd Latvian Guards Division. Participated In Defense of Moscow and Liberation…

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Israel Jasinovsky

Infantry, Worked In Munitions Plant, Training

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Lazar Feldman

Truck Driver, Artillery

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Leonid Feldman

Master Sergeant Communications Platoon 5th Armoured Landing Division. Lieutenant Colonel By End…

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Leonid Sheinker

Air Force Engineer and Gunner. Fought in Defense of Moscow and Capture…

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Lev Pikus

Brest Partisans

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Liya Liberova

Senior Sergeant, 34th MPVO Battalion (Local Anti-Aircraft Defense Forces) 551 battalion (All…

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Mark Bas

Member of The Moscow Motorcycle Battalion. Later served In Mongolia

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Mikhail Bass

Belarusian Partisans, later joined Red Army. Fought in Poland and at Capture…

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Mikhail Rivkis

Soldier, Battle of Leningrad

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Mikhail Rozenshteyn

Sergeant in Airborne Troops, Detachment Commander Machine-Gun Company

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Moisei Chernoguz

Radio Operator 30th Attack Army. Placed in command of recently released convicts,…

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Nina Goldstein

Siege Of Leningrad Survivor.

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Noah Shneidman

Front Line Infantry – Polish Partisans, Capture of Konigsberg and Berlin.

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Semyon Perlamutrov

Private in anti tank artillery – Siege Of Leningrad

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Shelma Mushkat

Artillery Commander – Leningrad, Continuation War, Mongolia.

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Sima Vesyoly

Nurse in Field Hospital – with 2nd Bellorusian Front, Germany, Japan.

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Valentin Rabinovich

Altitude and range estimator in anti aircraft battalion, helped break Siege Of…

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Vladimir Shekhtman

Tank Driver Belarusian Front, Poland, Battle Of Berlin

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Yakov Jarchin

Infantry – Junior Sergeant Rifle Battalion, Liberation of Rostov, Kishinev, Warsaw and…

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Yakov Krenin

Katyusha (rockets) Platoon Commander 303 Guards Mortar Regiment: Ukraine, Poland, Kharkov, Capture…

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Yakov Perlamutrov

Machine Gunner: Ukrainian Front and Battle of Kursk.

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Yakov Rats

Tank Repair Instructor whose family survived Siege Of Leningrad.

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Yevgeniy Vesyoly

Aviation Mechanic Normandie-Nieman Regiment: Battle Of Berlin.

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Zinoviy Ovsey

Military Surgeon 13th Guards Division – Ukrainian Front.

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Zinoviy Rovner

Junior Sergeant, Radio Operator in Artillery Unit. Fought Against Japan In Liberation…

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