This is photo of uncle Paul in Austrian captivity. (Mother's brother Pavel (Faiva)).
During the First World War he was enlisted in the Russian Tsarist army, was in a battle, and got captured by Austrians.
After returning from captivity he studied, graduated from a medical institute and worked as a obstetrician and gynaecologist in Kharkov. He was a charming and very benevolent person. Uncle Pavel defended his candidate's thesis and worked in the clinic of the Kharkov medical institute. During the war he was a military doctor, Head of a hospital where heavily injured soldiers were treated. The hospital was in Izhevsk. After the war he lived and worked in Kharkov again. He died at the end of the 1960's in Simferopol. His wife's name was Vera. They had no children
Pual Basok as Austrian prisoner of war
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