Video History Archives
Of Jewish Soviet Soldiers
during WW2

Veteran Interviews

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

Isaak Ashmian

Born: December 19th 1919 Kharkov, Ukraine (raised in Moscow). Passed Away: March 9th, 2013 Toronto, Ontario.
Interviewed In: Toronto, Ontario

Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class) and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Sheil Barkin

Born 1923 Daugavpils, Lithuania
Interviewed In: Vancouver, British Columbia
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class) and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Mark Bas

Born December 25th 1922 Smolensk, Soviet Union.
Interviewed In: Toronto, Ontario
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal For Defense of Moscow and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal For Defense of Moscow and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Mikhail Bass

Born March 16th 1928 Mink, Belarus
Interviewed In: Toronto, Ontario
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal for Partisan of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class) and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal for Partisan of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class) and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Isaak Budnitski

Born April 29th 1918 Vasilkov, Ukraine.
Interviewed In: Montreal, Quebec
Medals Awarded: Medal For Defense of Stalingrad, Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star, Liberation of Vienna and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
Medals Awarded: Medal For Defense of Stalingrad, Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star, Liberation of Vienna and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Moisei Chernoguz

Born December 15th 1923 Sovran, Ukraine.
Interviewed In: Toronto, Ontario
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal For Defense of Moscow, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal For Liberation of Warsaw and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal For Defense of Moscow, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal For Liberation of Warsaw and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Yakov Chudnovsky

Born June 15, 1926 Pavlovsky Posad (Moscow Suburb), Soviet Union
Interviewed In: Vancouver, British Columbia

Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Medal For Liberation of Warsaw and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Lazar Chukhovich

Born November 13th 1926 Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Interviewed In: Montreal, Quebec

Medals Awarded: Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War

Felix Dyman

March 24, 1927 Vitebsk, Belarus
Interviewed In: Toronto, Ontario