trench with my white camouflage cloak on, as it was in the winter. It was an active defense on our part. Our goal was to capture a “Yazyk”, a German prisoner who would talk. We spotted a German machine gunner and brought down fire on both sides making sure he couldn’t escape. My sappers made a passage over a mine land surrounded by barbwire.”

After The Defence of Moscow, Beniamin was given more advisory tasks related to his engineering background. He commanded an artillery brigade, supporting a tank unit during The Battle of Konigsberg:

“We accompanied a tank brigade, I was in command of the accompanying company, the platoon commanders were in front. I was with our chief of staff in the tank.”

Beniamin became an advisor to The North Korean Army after the war in Europe:

“As an advisor I was involved in training and instructing them. They had an army, with platoons and companies. They had a personnel arrangement similar to what we had. We trained them how to fight. We had interpreters.”

Beniamin returned to The Soviet Union in 1953. He noticed antisemitism had grown more prevalent but was still able to find work as a department manager at a secret military production facility in Minks. He had to destroy classified documents before immigrating to Israel with his wife and children. They eventually settled in Montreal.