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Follow RT on Nikolay Kiselev is known as ‘Russia’s Schindler’ for leading more than 200 Jews out of Nazi-held territories during World War II. One of the survivors talked to RT about the atrocities of the occupiers and the daring march.
Leon Rubin was only five when the Nazi forces entered Dolginovo in the Soviet Republic of Belarus just days after attacking the USSR on June 22, 1941. The mainly Jewish village near the Polish border was strategically important as it stood on a major transport artery, which even Napoleon used during his failed attempt to conquer Russia in 1812.
The Nazis executed the rabbi and captured those who were part of the Soviet administration, but