Jewish Warfare on the Shores of the River of Daugava: Zionist Combatants of the Latvian Military Formations of the Red Army Remember World War II (original) (raw)

2016, Kornberg-Jezierski Family Memorial Essay Prize in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto

Abstract

I was always fascinated by the history of Latvian Jews in the Red Army and how it differed from other Jewish war experiences. It's a complex story of my people on which I am still working on, gathering archival sources, historical documents, letters from the front, memoirs and oral histories around the world. This paper I wrote in 2015 for my Holocaust course at UofT and eventually received Kornberg-Jezierski Family Memorial Essay Prize in Holocaust Studies. Though I never aimed it for publication, it's interesting to trace the evolution of my initial thoughts on the topic since the beginning of the project. Keywords: Latvian Jews, Red Army, 130th Rifle Corps, 201st Rifle Division, 43rd Guard Rifle Division, Pasternak, Amdur, Vulfson, Eidus, Lurie, Friedman

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