The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

In the Army
SEMEN Tilipman
Photo taken in: Chernyatyn, 1944
Interviewer: Natalia Fomina
Me, first from right, after our troops liberated
Chernivtsi in May-June 1944. In Chernivtsi we took
the spoils of war including food, weapons, fuel, and
alcohol. My friend, Captain Zhuk, behind me in this
picture, took some fuel and failed to report it to the
fuel department, so he was sent to a penal battalion. I
don’t know whether he survived.
Arkadiy Redko
Photo taken in: Kyiv, 1999
Interviewer: Ella Levitskaya
Me with fellow members of the Kyiv Association of Jewish
War Veterans at the Jewish Council of Ukraine. I am in the
first row, second from the right. Since my retirement in 1992,
I have been very active in the Kyiv Association of Jewish War
Veterans, the council of the Kyiv Jewish Community, and the
Jewish Council of Ukraine.
Arnold Fabrikant
Photo taken in: top, Piatigorsk, Russia, 1941 bottom, Odessa, 2001
Interviewer: Nathalia Rezanova
I was called to the army in July 1941 and served in an artillery unit. My father
was an army officer. When his unit was encircled by Germans, he and his
fellow officers shot themselves rather than be captured by the fascists. I
fought in Rostov and Donetsk, marched through Belarus and Poland, and
finally Germany itself, where we fought in the streets of Potsdam and Berlin.
Once in my peaceful life after the war, I received many awards for my
participation in the war effort.
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