Ion Lazarevich Degen Biography

Mother worked as a nurse in the hospital. At the age of 12, he began working as an assistant to the blacksmith. He was fond of zoology, botany, literature. In his own words, "grew up a young fanatic, selflessly devoted to the communist system." During the Great Patriotic War, in July, he voluntarily went to the front in a fighter battalion, consisting of students in the ninth and tenth grades.

He fought as part of the Rifle Division. He was wounded when leaving the encirclement. I got to the Poltava hospital; By a happy coincidence, he escaped amputation of the leg. The division included two armored trains - Siberian and Kuzbass railway worker and staff train. The combat mission of the division in the fall of the year was to cover the direction to Mozdok and Beslan.

Intelligence department commander. After discharge from the hospital, the cadet of the training tank regiment in the city of Shulaba. Then he was transferred to the 1st Kharkov Tank School Chirchik. In the spring of the year he graduated from the school with honors and received the title of junior lieutenant. In June, he was appointed commander of the tank in the 2nd separate guards tank brigade, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Efim Evseevich Spiritual.

After the summer offensive of the year in Belarus and Lithuania, he received the nickname “Lucky” for the vitality. Later - the commander of a tank platoon; The commander of the tank company T is one of the Soviet tank aces: during the participation in the fighting as part of the 2nd separate guards tank brigade, 12 German tanks, including 1 Tiger, 8 “Panther” and 4 self-propelled guns, including 1 Ferdinand ”, many guns, machine guns, mortars and maneuvers of the enemy, were destroyed.

He was awarded the orders-the Red Banner, the “Patriotic War” of the 1st degree, two-the “Patriotic War” of the 2nd degree, the medal “For Courage”, the Polish orders “Virtuti Militari”, “The Cross of Grunvald” and the Renaissance of Poland, medals. The commander of the tank company, Ion Degen, was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union twice, and the second time in January of the year he was represented by the commander of the 3rd Belarusian Front, General Chernyakhovsky-for a successful operation in East Prussia.

And twice settled like a Jew. Both times he received only orders. He suffered burns and four injuries, in which he got twenty -two 22 fragments and bullets. As a result of the last injury on January 21, a difficult disability. The doctor and writer, after demobilization from the army, decided to become a doctor: “Seeing the noble feat of doctors who save the lives of the wounded soldiers, I also decided to become a doctor.

And he never regretted choosing his profession in the future. ” In the year, he graduated with honors from the Chernivtsi Medical Institute and began to work up to a year by an orthopedist-traumatologist at the Kiev Orthopedic Institute. Up to a year, an orthopedic traumatologist in the hospitals of Kyiv. In the year, Moscow defended his dissertation on the topic “A lack of free bone transplant in a round stem”.

In the year, at the surgical council of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Therapeutic effect of magnetic fields for some diseases of the musculoskeletal system”-the first doctoral dissertation in magnetotherapy in medicine. Author of 90 scientific articles. Head of 8 candidate and 2 doctoral dissertations. In the year, he was repatriated to Israel, where he continues to work as a orthopedic doctor for more than years.

Member of the editorial board of the popular magazine Voice of a Disabled War, a constant consultant in Beit Alocham - a club of disabled people of the Israeli Defense Army, a connoisseur of the Torah, Tanach and modern philosophy. The only Soviet tanker enrolled in the Society of Israeli tankers who distinguished themselves heroism. In addition to medicine, at leisure was fond of literature.

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