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could not hold the last and let out. I bound a belt, and he swore: «I will shoot you», «Jew», «shit», etc. But I only
laughed at him. Fighters and commanders to whom he already bothered with the barking voice laughed. «The
stupid you, a doggie Pointing, and you undertake to be a commander?!» He was not what to answer it and was
long barked. Here so them, reptiles, it is necessary to bridle!

05.17.1943

Did not write several days because there was no time. For this period wrote a number of letters to mother, the
father, to Magnitogorsk, to Salsk to newspaper editorial office, to hospital.
Now political preparation. Most of the cadets is not interested in policy, and remember it before a lesson only.
Several times I had to give classes, [...] to ask cadets to listen to orders of t. Stalin for? 195 and 95. But very few
people wanted and listened to these orders. Now the dwarf freak poseur Popov began to complain to the teacher
that I did not read and did not allow anybody to read orders. And on the house I gave the person of seven.
The commander of our calculation sergeant Kostenko is an awful bastard, the racist and the shameless
antisemitic. Daily he scoffs over me, forces to be dragged constantly with a mortar and other. Once he openly said
that I 'the Jewish muzzle that Abrama all cunning', etc. Another time, on my question 'Than I Am Worse than
You?' asked him during its mockeries over me, he answered haughty and impudently, looking to me in a face:
'How than? I Russian, and who are you?!...'
The cadet Kruzhilin combines even more nasty thing of racism. That and 'Corn' (in ''), and Abram (in '') calls me
and 'A curve rifle' which, allegedly, Jews like to carry without wishing to be at war really and so forth.
Once, after the discussion with propagandists which was led by the lieutenant colonel I declared to him these
facts. He promised to liquidate a similar outrage. And it is valid, spoke about it at a Komsomol meeting. The
captain Zakharov, commanders of company and platoon learned about it from the secretary of a party bureau. I
was called together with the party organizer yesterday to the captain where he interviewed me in detail (and the
party organizer) about situation in a company. I told him everything, but asked not to blame our commander
lieutenant Satarov from whom I never met antiSemitism, and opposite, fight against manifestations of negligence
of one nation of people to another.

08.26.1943

N.K. O. S.S.S.R.
ARMY COURSES
Second lieutenants
The 28th ARMY
As regards front
August 26, 1943.
N 1/2608

Reference

To the cadet Gelfand Vladimir Natanovich the military grade the second lieutenant by the order on 28 ARMIES is
given for? 0781 of August 26, 1943.

CHIEF OF THE FRONT PART
/ SVIDERSKY /
the major