Vayspapir, Arkady Moiseevich

Arkady Moiseevich Vayspapir was born on December 23, 1921 in the Jewish agricultural colony Bobrovy Kut . In 1937 he graduated with honors from the Jewish ten-year school. In 1938, his father Moses Leibovich Vayspapir was repressed and executed (rehabilitated posthumously in 1960) ^[3] .

After working for a year in the tractor brigade, from June 22, 1941 he took part in the Great Patriotic War . Defending Kiev from the Nazi invaders, who had by then become the squad leader, sergeant A. Vayspapir was seriously injured, was taken to the medical battalion and was captured on September 15, 1941. The wound was so severe that A. Vayspapir stayed in the medical units of Chernigov , Gomel , Minsk , in March 1942 he was sent to the punishment cell of the Minsk concentration camp , and in September 1943 to the death camp Sobibor . In the camp, having learned that the rest of the arrivals from Minsk had been put to death in the gas chamber of the second concentration camp, he began to plan an uprising . It took more than one month. Alexander Aronovich Pechersky was elected leader of the uprising. During the uprising, Arkady Moiseevich ax killed two SS officers, the head of the Greyshuts camp guard and SS officer Klyat ^[4] . Having fled from the death camp, A. Vayspapir joined the partisan detachment named after Mikhail Frunze of the Brest formation and became a machine gunner.

Subsequently, in April 1945, the partisan detachment merged with the Red Army . The war foreman of the 70th Army reconnaissance company Arkady Vayspapir in Wismar ended the war. After the war, he learned that his older brother had died at the front, and the 5-year-old sister, Basya, with his mother, Raisa Iosifovna, were destroyed by the Nazis and collaborators along with other Jews from the village of Bobrovy Kut.

After the war, A. Vayspapir graduated with honors from the Zaporizhzhya Industrial Institute . He worked as the chief engineer of the spare parts plant in Lugansk and Artyomovsk. Then he worked as the head of the department in the management of the Economic Council in Donetsk. Present at the funeral of A. Pechersky ^[5] . In 1994, he moved with his family to Kiev, where he died on January 11, 2018.

• Father - Moses Leibovich, repressed and executed in 1938, rehabilitated posthumously in 1960
• Mother - Raisa Iosifovna, killed by the Nazis and collaborators in the village of Bobrovy Kut during the Holocaust
• Brother - died at the front during the Great Patriotic War
• Sister - Basia, killed at the age of five by the Nazis and collaborators in the village of Bobrovy Kut during the Holocaust
• Wife - Faina Samoilovna, teacher of mathematics
• Children - Mikhail, a doctor, and Vadim, an engineer

• Order of the Patriotic War I degree
• Medal "Partisan of World War II"
• Medal of Honor"
• Certificate of honor “Beit Lokhamey a-getaot” ^[6]
• Cavalier of the Order of Merit, III degree (2016) ^[7]
• Violinist on the Roof Award of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in the nomination Man-Legend (2016)

• 2010 - Arithmetic of Freedom (dir. Alexander Marutyan)

• Rosenfeld, Semyon Moiseevich

• Jules Schelvis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. Unrast-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6
• Barbara Distel: Sobibor. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Diestel (Hrsg.): Der Ort des Terrors. Riga-Kaiserwald, Warschau, Vaivara, Kauen (Kaunas), Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Band 8. CH Beck, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 .

• Kiev calendar