This is me. The picture was taken in Lenino during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Lenino in 1968.
My brother Iziek and I fought in the Battle of Lenino, and my brother was killed virtually a couple of steps away from me. I was the second in command of the regiment’s medical company. I personally took part in taking wounded soldiers away from the front line under enemy fire. During one such excursion to the front line I was heavily wounded. I went through several hospitals between October and May, and eventually found myself in a Polish hospital in Moscow, where I underwent the final surgery.
After being released from the hospital, I was sent back to the front, to the headquarters, in Lutsk, Ukraine, and from there I went with the army as an officer, already wounded in battle, with the back units. I took part in the liberation of Lublin, and then in the liberation of Warsaw on 17th January 1945.