CITY: Proskurovo (now Khmelnitsky), Vinnitsa region, Ukraine DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1911 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Daughter's story Esther M. Shmukler (Litvak) “My dad Litvak Moisha Fishelevich was born in 1911 in Proskurovo (now Khmelnitsky), Vinnytsia region, Ukraine. At the age of 4, Moisha lost his mother. There are four children left in the family and their father and aunt (mother's own sister) Moishe were engaged in raising them. Soon the whole family moved to live in Kherson, where Moisha graduated from high school, and then from the Metallurgical College. In Kherson, the young man Moisha met my mother and on February 14, 1937 they got married and moved to live in the city of Kazan at the invitation of a friend. Moishe Litvak got a job at the chemical plant. V.I. Lenin. When the war began, my parents had two children. Moyshe Litvak was given a reservation, but he went to the military registration and enlistment office and voluntarily went to the front. In February 1942, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle platoon of the 286th rifle regiment of the 90th rifle division of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front. He broke through the blockade of Leningrad. I remember the story of how the father raised the son of the regiment. Once, after the battle, Moyshe Fishelevich went to the headquarters to report on the conduct of a military operation. And he gave the order to his fellow soldiers to return to the place of deployment. As the soldiers walked across the field, they heard children crying among the killed people. After searching, the soldiers found a little boy 2 years old under the body of a murdered woman. The fighters took the boy with them. When Moyshe Fishelevich returned from the headquarters to the company, he heard a child's voice, so he learned about the boy. And the boy became the son of the regiment. The boy spent the whole war in a company under the command of his father. And after the war, the boy was taken by one of the soldiers. In January 1943, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle platoon of the 286th rifle regiment of the 90th rifle division of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front. In April 1943, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle company of the 289th rifle regiment of the 120th rifle division of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front. In January 1944, Moisha Litvak was undergoing medical treatment in the evacuation hospital No. 1116 in Leningrad. In besieged Leningrad, his father received 4 wounds. From February 20, 1944, Moisha Litvak was promoted to senior lieutenant. In May 1944, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle company of the 1259th rifle regiment of the 381st rifle division of the 2nd Shock Army. After the liberation of Leningrad, dad was transferred to the 2nd Belorussian Front. He fought in the lands of Finland and Poland. On the website "The feat of the people" there is a description of the feat of Moishe Litvak. On January 7, 1945, Moisha Litvak was very seriously wounded in the hip region, his liver was pierced and fragments remained. In addition, he was seriously wounded. In February 1945, Moisha Litvak was sent to the Kuibyshev hospital for recovery, and then on February 14 he was transferred to evacuation hospital No. 2783 in Kazan for recovery. Victory Day, May 9, 1945 Moisha Fishelevich Litvak met in Kazan.9 October 1945, Moisha Litvak was appointed head of the 4th unit of the Yudinsky RVK of the TASSR. In 1946 he was transferred to the reserve due to illness. Moishe Litvak has 4 daughters, 3 granddaughters and 1 grandson, 2 great-granddaughters, 2 great-great-grandchildren. "