Commander M. Lechtman, a Jewish officer, is cited in the local press today as one of the three commanders who are leading the Soviet drive on Rostov, which has reached the outskirts of that city. “Together with the brave Russian commanders, Presha and Mamchura, he is dealing heavy blows at the Mitlerite hordes,” the papers write.
At the same time the press published a decree by the Council of Peoples Commissars appointing several more Jewish officers to the rank of general. Anatoli Breidos has been appointed a Major General of Artillery; Jacob Binovich, Samuel Davidovich, Alexander Slavin and Isaac Klastkin have been raised to the same rank in the Engineering Corps; and Mikhail Gurevich and Jacob Kuitskes have been promoted to the rank of Major-General of the Engineering Aviation Corps.
An order of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, also published today, lists 13 Jewish officers, ranging from Lieut.-Colonels to Major-Generals, among commanders decorated for successfully completing difficult military operations of great strategic importance. The decorations included the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, the Order of the Red Banner and others.
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