Tag #128763 - Interview #78268 (Leonid Dusman)

At 17 my father became a volunteer with the Jewish self-defense movement [6]. There were many such units in Odessa in those years to fight against pogrom-makers. During the February Revolution in 1917 the units of Jewish self-defense joined the Red Guard Troops [armed detachments of workers during the Revolution of 1917]. My father was in the Red Guard Troops. After the February Revolution, when Jews got all their civil rights, my father and his brother finished a military school.