Branch of troops: Communication Troops. He was born in 1925. From the memoirs Of M. I. Kofman: "I was 15 and a half years old when the war started. We lived in the town of Rechitsa, Gomel region, Belarusian SSR. My father was drafted into the army on June 29, 1941. Our family was left without a father. We lived in a house, we had 2 cows. One we sold and bought a horse with a cart, and the other one we took with us. My grandparents did not go with us and did not let the family of their son Ruvun with his wife and three children, the youngest daughter was 2 and a half years old. All were killed by the Nazis. I built a booth on a cart, collected the necessary things and left on August 18. Four days my mother and I walked went to the East. On the way, we learned that all the "Volga Germans" were evacuated, and we went in the same direction. On the way to Belgorod, we sold our cow. Then there were the cities of Sumy, Konotop and Chernyanka, the railway station where I met my father. This meeting was arranged by a kind-hearted woman - a teacher who worked at a Homel school. She convinced my mother to go to a military unit. That's how we saw my father. He had the addresses of my mother's sisters (there were three of them, they went to the Chuvash ASSR). And so my father learned that the Kharkiv Electromechanical plant was evacuated to Chuvashia, and the second part – to Cheboksary. So we went more than a thousand kilometers. At the end of September, my father loaded me and my mother into a freight car. We patched up the cracks as best we could on the way, and I put together a small stove out of a railway lamp. And so we didn't suffer from the cold. We provided food for ourselves. We arrived in Cheboksary on November 11 and found my mother's sisters. They helped us with housing. It was a room of 9 sq. m. where we lived – some studied and some worked. I worked in a kindergarten. Every day I had to bring from across the Volga a cubic meter of firewood (this is 17 km in one direction) + 2 barrels of 250 liters from the column to the kindergarten. I also brought food. In 1943, I was drafted into the army on November 9. In May 1944, I graduated from the training courses for Junior commanders. We were sent (6 people) from the battalion to the city of Vyshny Volchok. There, after 3 months, I received permission to move to the active army on the 2nd Ukrainian front of the 40th army, where I met my father for the second time, and served in the communications company until the end of the war. We were 70 km away from Prague. We returned with the headquarters of the 40th army to Tiraspol. In early 1946, the army headquarters was disbanded. I was given a 1-month vacation at my place of residence. In the same year, I was sent to Minsk to a transfer point. 4 months later, I was sent to the shell repair base, where I served until 1950 in the security service. I currently have dual citizenship. I live in the state of Israel. On December 29, 2015, I turned 90 and decided to retire from work... My father died in Rechitsa in 1963. My mother died in Israel at the age of 90. The older sister died in Yalta. The younger sister died in Israel on January 2, 2016. And finally, I want to say that I wrote these words when my mother was alive: You raised four children, Went through the horrors of war. But you never dropped neither a tear nor a proud head. I remember you, mother...»