Oral history interview with Zinovi Feigin
Zinovi Feigin, born on April 3, 1926 in Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), Russia, discusses his role as a radio operator and paratrooper in the Soviet Army during WWII; participating on the Ukrainian front, in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), and in the liberation of Vienna; and receiving the medal "For the Capture of Vienna", a medal for Combat Merits, and the “Order of the Red Star”.
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- Interviewee
- Zinovi Feigin
- Geography
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creation:
Canada.
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1 digital file : MP4.
2 digital files : MOV.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elen Steinberg on behalf of the Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project
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Record last modified: 2022-10-27 09:57:52
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