[Cz-L] Letter from the Front line.

A few days ago I sent a post of a letter from the Soviet front line.
It was in Russian but I understand most of it.
  What makes it so interesting ?
  First the date : June 25, 1941 - 2 days after Operation Barbarossa was
launched.
    5 days before the occupation of Czernowitz.
   Secondly the writer: Lt. Boris Nahumowitch Kobetz , by the name Jewish .
        His father was Nahum ,there are no other people who carry this name
but Jews.
   Third : Boris ,an artillery officer was positioned on the Czernowitz
front line.
          He could see and hear the German planes as they strifed
Czernowitz.
   Fourth : He brags how his battery pounds the Germans "until dust rises".
          " We will not let them step on our land " he solemnly declares.
         This was only 2 days before the Germans broke the front lines and
were
         not stopped until Stalingrad , 1000 miles to the East and 18 months
later.
  Fifth : Boris lived only a few more days ,he was killed in the German
onslaught.
          He was buried in a mass grave probably in the Jewish cemetery of
Czernowitz.
           There was no time for ceremonies.
            Who was Boris Naumovich - Artillery Lieutenant -Red Army 1941
Czernowitz Front ?
           We know that he was Jewish -by his name. He most probably was not
 from Czernowitz.
           His Russian is perfect - the Soviet annexation was just a year
old - you do not command
           a language in such a short period.
            Then the letter is to his folks so they too must be Russian
Jews.

          These are my deductions , any other objections are welcome.
           Hardy


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