DS010 Aleksandr Milenkiy

This interview is about Aleksandr Milenkiy. Aleksandr was born in 1925 in Minsk, Belarus. Aleksandr volunteered in the Red Army Infantry to fight Nazi Germany in the fall of 1942 at age 17 and participated in the big Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. In October of 1943 he was captured by Germans, after being wounded crossing the Dnieper river under enemy fire. He was then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he joined an international resistance group opposed to the Nazis. In April, 1945 he was liberated by the US Army during a forced march. Aleksandr came to the US from Belarus in 1992 and died in Shorewood, Wisconsin June 14, 2019. He was 93.