Hello from Israel

Shalom Gaky...

Welcome to the forum! Nice to have you here.

Your Great Grand parents were certainly courageous people in the war. So nice to hear stories like that. I love to hear more, especially to see pictures of those medals!


Just out of curiosity, not that it's important... is your family Jewish? i especially am a fan of reading and hearing about the jewish resistance movement.. just wondering

did your family fight under the red army, or the resistance?


love to hear more from you... I'm Suzie by the way, it's nice to meet you.

 

I talked with my parent about my grand-grand-parent and they fixed me a little, he was not a radio man, he was some one els, i forgot(lol) i will ask her tommorow(she is asleep)
here are some pictures of the medals
Ow and sunny, they where jewish(i posted some stuff about the holocaust in ww2 general) but they where under the SSSR army. My grand grand father met my grand grand mother when he got shot and he was sent to a hospital, she was a nurse and she threated him and they fell in-love. kinda hollywood don't you think =P
well here are the medalsif you could tell me what they are about i would be really happy)
at first i snapped shot from one side and then from another side. so 2 pictures is 1 medal.

ImageShack Album - 8 images

 

1st picture, from left,

medal 1 "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
medal 2 "Veteran of Labour"
medal 3 "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
medal 4 "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

 

3rd picture, from left,

medal 1 "For Combat Merits"
medal 2 "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
medal 3 "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
medal 4 "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

 

5th picture, from left,

medal 1 Not certain, suspect is 20 year anniversary but unsure what exactly, possibly a branch of the armed forces
medal 2 "For Courage"
medal 3 Not certain, suspect is 50 years of victory
medal 4 "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

 

7th picture, from left

Order of the Patriotic War
1st class, possibly a miniature

Last picture, unsure, believe them to be veterans pins related to certain locations or towns.

More info on all can be found here;

Orders, decorations, and medals of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Thank you !
Also he was an officer and a radio man.
after he got shot he was a teacher for about 3-4 months on how to be a radio man in the army

 

Nise story about how your Grandmother met your Grandad. Sounds a lot like what part of Penalty Strike is about. If I recall? I THINK that was how Alexander Pyl'Cyn met the woman who would become his wife. If not? his love story is very similar as your grandparents story is ;-))

 

Well true, that is a great lesson to remember. I bought mine from amazon.com for a very cheap price. You could give that a try to find some of the books you are wanting to read