70 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad

Mon, 02/11/2013 - 3:09pm

On February 2, we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the decisive WWII Battle of Stalingrad. That battle changed the course of the war, leading to the final victory over Nazi Germany. As many as two million lives may have been lost at Stalingrad. We invite you to watch edited and subtitled clips from testimonies of three Red Army veterans who participated in the frontline fighting. The Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation contains interviews with hundreds of Allied liberators and Jewish war veterans from all fronts of WWII.

Zinovii Evenshteyn was born in 1923 in Nevel', in the Kalinin region of the former Soviet Union (now Russia). He was interviewed in 1995 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Tsezar Faytelson was born in 1921 in Senno, in the Vitebsk region of the former Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia (now Belarus). He was interviewed in 1996 in Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Anatoliy Shtivelman was born in 1923 in Odessa, in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine). He was interviewed in 1995 in West Hollywood, CA, United States.