Yefim Volodarskiy’s brother Shimshin Volodarskiy

My brother Shimshin Volodarskiy, he is wearing a uniform of the time of the great patriotic War in the picture. This photo was taken for our father. He sent it to him for the memory to Belaya Tserkov. Kiev, 1947.

My brother Shimshin was born in Belaya Tserkov in 1914. Shimshin studied in cheder, finished a 7-year Jewish school and then studied in the Jewish technical school in Belaya Tserkov. He went to serve in the Red army and stayed for an additional service. Then he entered a military school, I don't remember which one, and became an army officer. He was at the front during the Great Patriotic War and was shell-shocked. He demobilized in the rank of colonel. My brother was married few times. He didn't have children. He lived in Dnepropetrovsk. Shimshin died in 2000. I didn't get along with Shimshin and I don't know any details of his life.