Photo montage of members of a unit of the Soviet Army responsible for the acquisition of foreign military hardware, under the command of Senior Lieutenant Milovanov.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 25528

Overview

Caption: Photo montage of members of a unit of the Soviet Army responsible for the acquisition of foreign military hardware, under the command of Senior Lieutenant Milovanov.

This unit, which included a few Soviet Jews, was responsible for receiving Pershing tanks and other military supplies sent to the Soviet Union by the United States under the Lend Lease program. Abram Levin (later Lewin), the donor's husband, is pictured in the second row, second from right.
Photographer: Abramov
Date: 1943
Locale: Gorky, [Russia] USSR
Variant Locale: Gor'Kiy
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ester Ajzen Lewin

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ester Ajzen Lewin

Keyword: CERTIFICATES/DIPLOMAS LEND-LEASE PROGRAM MILITARY VEHICLES PHOTOMONTAGE SOLDIERS/MILITARY (JEWISH) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- USSR -- GENERAL -- Soviet Government/Red Army/Battles

Biography: Abram Lewin was born in Derazhnya, Ukraine. He had two brothers, Yuri and Misha and a sister, Becky. During WWII he enlisted in the Red Army. For a time he was stationed in Gorky, where he served in a unit responsible for the acquisition of foreign military hardware under the command of Lt. Milovanov. There he met a young Jewish refugee from Chelm, Estera Ajzen, and the two were married February 8, 1944. Abram later participated in the Soviet liberation of Berlin in May 1945. After the war the couple settled in Poland, where they remained until immigrating to the United States in 1956.