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This website contains interviews with 60 Jewish veterans of Soviet Armed Forces, partisans and blockade survivors who emigrated to Canada. The interviews, which were conducted in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Calgary between 2010 and 2014, aim to preserve their memories and firsthand accounts of the Jewish war time experience in the former Soviet Union.

Between 350,000 to 500,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union fought in the Second World War with the Soviet Armed Forces with 150,000 to 250,000 perishing on the battlegrounds. Jewish people were also one of the highest decorated ethnic groups in The Soviet Red Army. These brave men and women, including all of our interviewees, were involved in a variety of roles throughout the Eastern Front including serving in the tank forces, in the artillery, in the air force, and in the navy. Many Jews also served in the ranks of military translators, physicians, nurses, military correspondents, and political officers who were attached to the various types of forces, yet few know their story.

The combination of eye witness accounts and background information on this website are aimed to serve as a digital museum, create awareness and understanding of a little known part of Jewish history. These videos are an authentic oral history of The Second World War, a chance to view world shaping events through the eyes of someone who experienced them first hand.

To view all our supporting research, please visit our fact checking references page.

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