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Ternopol, Ukraine
Interview conducted in 2003 by Zhanna Litinskaya
This is me, Israel Gliazer, and my wife Ludmila Orlova and our older son Yuri. This photo was taken in Podgaitsy in 1948. This is our first family photo.
This is me, Israel Gliazer, second from left, photographed with my friends during our stay in Pyongyang at the end of World War II. Standing beside me on the right is my Jewish fellow comrade Kon. I have a medal 'For Combat Merits’ on my chest. We are wearing uniforms of the Soviet army at the time of World War II.
This is me, Israel Gliazer, during my studies at Communications School, wearing a uniform of a Red army soldier at the beginning of World War II. This photo was taken in Irkutsk, January 1941.
These are political prisoners released from a prison in Drogobych in 1934. They are representatives of various political parties. In the upper row from left to right: the first is my brother Moishe, member of the Communist party, next to him are Shveikov, Aleksyuk, Rozenfeld. In the lower row first from left is Erdlei, in the center a member of the Communist Party of Poland, the one on the right is a member of the Ukrainian Nationalistic Party, brother of Stepan Bandera, leader of Ukrainian nationalists.
This is my sister Sarra wearing a costume of Esther at a Purim celebration in Podgaitsy in 1930s.
This is me, Israel Gliazer, wearing a costume of a Ukrainian kozak at a Purim celebration in Podgaitsy in 1930s.
This is me, Israel Gliazer, photographed with my colleagues in the printing house in Podgaitsy in the 1930s. I am the second from left.
This is my cousin Moishe, my father sister Sarra’s son, (I don’t remember her family name after she got married) wearing a uniform of a soldier of the Polish army. This photo was taken approximately in 1936.
This is a photo of my family. In the lower row there is my father Iozeph Gliazer, my mother Pesia Gliazer. In the upper row from right: I, Israel Gliazer, my brother Moishe and my sister Sarra. This photo was taken in Podgaitsy on our parents’ anniversary in 1940.
This is a photo of my family. In the lower row there is my father Iozeph Gliazer, my mother Pesia Gliazer. In the upper row from right: I, Israel Gliazer, my brother Moishe and my sister Sarra. This photo was taken in Podgaitsy on our parents’ anniversary in 1940.
This is my maternal grandfather Gershl Leviter. This photo was taken for a document in Skalat in late 1930s.
This is me, Israel Gliazer, conducting Sabbath in the religious Jewish community of Ternopol in 2003.
Born and growing up in Pogdaytsy, a picturesque town in the Carpathian foothills, Mr. Gliazer gives us great insight into social, business and religious life in his home town, which had a Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian population. This town belonged to Austria-Hungary before World War I, later to Poland, in 1939 it became a part of the USSR and at present it is part of Ukraine. His maternal grandfather was a very religious Hasid, Jewish traditions and holidays were strictly observed in the family. The interviewee and his brothers went to cheder, spoke Yiddish at home and studied Polish and Ukrainian at school.
In early 1940, Mr. Gliazer was recruited to the Soviet army and studied in a communications school in the Far East, where he learned both Russian and technical subjects. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War and until late 1942 he trained radio operators. Following that, he was chief of the radio station in an aerodrome in the rear of the 4th Ukrainian front. After the war, he became a production engineer and, later, director of a printing house. 12 pictures complement his moving recollections.
