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At about age 22, I was drafted into the Russian Army and sent to Officers School and graduated as a lieutenant.

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I was in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets and shrapnel. There were lots of Jews in the Russian Army then. I was severely wounded in the left side of my chest. It wasn’t healing properly, and I was sent to a hospital in Uzbekistan for treatment.

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My future wife (who was from Lithuania) had gone with her sister to visit someone who was hospitalized in that same hospital and met me there. We knew each other for a few months and close to the end of the war we got married (March 9, 1943).

We were married for 39 years when my wife passed away. Our son, Joseph Solomon, was born in 1946 in Beuthen (pron.

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Boyton), Poland.

After the war, we went to Poland. On the holiday of Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Law), I was in the shul (synagogue), but there were no sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls), so in place of the Torah I carried a little boy.

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