My Uncle, the late John Dickman, last surviving member of thirteen children died recently aged 96 years. The end of an era. Service to his country is recorded in the Register of War Memorials in NSW as follows. "John was born in Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW and was one of 13 children – nine boys and four girls. John’s family is related to the famous Australian cricketing legend Don Bradman who was an uncle on his mother’s side. For the first six years of his life t

In June of 1941, Hitler's Army began a rampage through Ukraine, razing towns, unleashing death squads, and massacring Jews by the hundreds of thousands. In one village in the Pale of Settlement, virtually the only region of the Soviet Empire in which Jews were permitted to reside, four Jewish brothers enlisted in the military, said goodbye to their parents, and walked off to fight the Nazis. By the war's end in 1945, only one of the brothers, named Semyon, was still alive. He