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The War and the Combatants

 

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Alexander Titiner, Lyova's brother, immediately after the War
 
Benharav Einikh, in 1949.
His leg was wounded and amputated. His brother, parents, and uncle were murdered in the Holocaust. He appears in many pictures of Gordonia and the Gymnasium from the 1930s. He died in Kishinev.
 
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Alexander Titiner in the parade for the Victory Day, May 9, 1990
 
Berl Suskin and Shmil Basis in Soviet Army uniforms.
Berl Suskin, brother of Dudele Suskin, who was a soccer player at Maccabi, came to Israel in 1962 and died in 1975. Shmil Basis fought until the end of the war, returned to Kiliya and died in a work accident at the docks.

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Hebrew text:
The Soviet troops were welcomed by the Kiliyans in 1940.
In the middle row from the left: Third - Borya Markuzan, fifth – Sonya Feferman, the wife of Khaim Feferman. Borya, his brother Zilya and the entire Markuzan family were murdered in the Holocaust.

Russian text:

The Soviet troops received a warm, friendly welcome from the local residents in Kiliya in 1940.
In the middle row: Borya Markuzan, Sonya Feferman, and others.

 

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Hebrew text:
Yacov Basis (Yasha) joined the Red Army at the beginning of the war until the fall of Berlin. In this picture from 1945, he is with his comrades from the reconnaissance group.

Russian text:
Y.G. Basis. His parents were killed by the Romanians in Kiliya in 1941. He joined the Red Army and fought in battles of the patriotic war until Berlin. In the photo Basis is standing first on the left with his comrades from the reconnaissance group

  Hebrew text:
Leonid Basis, son of Yasha and Taniya, during military service. He immigrated to Israel together with his parents and his entire family a few months ago.
[photo and caption are not dated]

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Reuven Dizhur, who was a decorated war hero
 
Meier Weisman, son of Zeidl Shokhet
 
Shaike Weisman, son of Abraham

 

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Borya Weinshtein,fought the entire war and died very young in Chernovitz, 1958
 
Dora Yakovlevna Vasilkovskaya, wife of Milya Rabinovich, was a teacher at Tarbut. She served as a doctor in the war. Today she is a citizen of honour of Kiliya.
 
Lionya Kharlamb was on the front the entire war

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Reuven Yankilevich, Tonya's husband (Barshadskaya), was one of the eight survivors of Bogdanovka
 
Isya Shrira (Shaike) Ben Yacov fought in the war. Next to him are his wife, Tova, and his daughter, Betunya

 

Boris Yakovlevich, son of Reuven and Tonya,
stayed in Kiliya

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Dr. S. Feinblat.
He served as a physician during the entire war.
 
Milya Feferman

 

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Moshe Kofman, war invalid
 
Ida Tsolek, served as a nurse on the front from January 1943 to the end of the war. To her left is a friend (not from Kiliya).

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Yosef Leib Katz
 
Aizik Kharlamb
 
Moshe ben Itskhak Mikhaelevich

 

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Yosef Katz and four soldiers from his unit.
The woman soldier is his cousin Klara.
 
Moshe Mikhaelevich on Victory Day, 1977 laying flowers on the tomb of the fallen soldiers

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Major Dr. Yefim Naumovich Rabinovich (son of Naum)
 
Dr. Naum Rabinovich, director of the military hospital in Central Asia
 
Yosef Srulovich Rabinovich, z”l, 1907–1982

 

Dr. N. Rabinovich with the medical staff of the hospital

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P. Gold,
son of Shaike and Sofa
 
Arkadi Goldman
(Abraham ben Shaike),
brother of Azrielik
 
Lyova Grinberg,
brother of Syoma

 

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Chana Davidovich
 
Monya Goldenshtein with his veteran's medal

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Anghel Abraham,
cousin of M. Weisman
 
Shoilik Umansky, son of Israel,
perished during the time of the retreat. In this picture, he is wearing the Romanian army uniform.
 
Aharon Beker, died in 1980

 

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Mark Berkovich, son of Idis Konstantinovsky
 
Leizer Blumental
 
Milya Goldman, was on the front until the end of the war

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Lionya Konstantinovsky volunteered to the R.A.S.K. of the British Army in December 1941. In June 1942, the Water Suppliers Unit of the 5th division downed a German bomber in the Al Alamein battle.
 
David Shwartsman and Misha Khaimovich volunteered to the Notrim troups (Jewish Policemen during the British Mandate) to guard the Home front.
 
Yosef Lerner joined the Gafirim (Jewish guards). In the picture, he is shown as a soldier in Tsahal (Israel Defense Forces) in the War of Independence 1948/1949.

 

D. Shwartsman on an armored vehicle

 

The second from the left is Lionya Konstantinovsky

 

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