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Shlomo Mushkat
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-12-5
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- textual record (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (jpg and tiff) : col. and sepia
- 2 textual records (jpg)
- Date
- 1942, 2005-2010
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of digital copies of two photographs and two documents related to the military career of Russian war vet, Shlomo Mushkat. The photographs are two portaits of Mushkat in military dress and the documents are a letter detailing his participation in the war as well as a letter from the Ukrainian Embassy on the 65th anniversary of the end of the war.
- Custodial History
- The original records are in the possession of the donor. They were loaned to the Archives for copying as part of the Russian Jewish War Vet oral history program.
- Administrative History
- Shlomo Zalmanovich Mushkat was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1940, he was drafted into the Soviet Army and a year later he was sent to the front. He was wounded in battle in 1941, but after recuperating in hospital was again sent back to the front. He participated in the battles of Smolensk and Leningrad. He received many medals for liberating Russian territories and cities, inlcuidng the Order of Glory.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
- Soviet Union--Armed Forces
- Source
- Archival Accessions