My Grandfather, Mark Traisman

My grandfather, Mark Traisman had an amazing fate. Going through old papers, we found his military ID, grandmother's identity card, issued in 1926, two workbooks, certificate of marriage, that is a semi-decayed old certificate issued in 1927, the Red Army book and survived awards. I open his identity card, issued after the war. It is difficult to disassemble the ink faded letters, but it appears so much can be learned! He was born in 1901, near Rostov in the stanitsa of Upper Pobedinskaya. My mother told me that my grandfather's grandfather was a stanitsa Cossaks’ leader. When he learned that his grandson enrolled the Red Army in 1918 as a volunteer, my great-grandpa yelled "I’ll curse anchi-Christ", and Vanya, without thinking twice, threatened our great-grandfather with just issued rifle, and forefather, very upset, died.
And Mark Traisman went to the Civil War together with the 292 Rifle Regiment until February 1922. Where and how he met my grandmother with a beautiful name of Theodore, I don’t know, she told only he brought her "from her “barynya”". Theodore was a nurse at the mistress, and her father, Gregory Liashenko, was the estate manager. And my grandmother would have gone with them abroad during the Civil War, if not for my grandpa.
It is known from the workbook that my grandfather had only 3 years of study, and in 1929 he went to work as a laborer in “Oblmeliovodstroy” where he worked his ways up to drilling foreman, and in 1937 he awarded with shoes for raising the literacy. Now it is perhaps funny to read such lines, but then a days... then it was an event!
And there is a record with which the war began for my grandfather... "On September 8, 1941 was dismissed on grounds of redundancy due to reduced volume of work". My grandfather was mobilized to the front. In age 40, Ivan Gavrilovich went to war, leaving behind a wife and two children...
Now I have his Red Army book in my hands, the ink is absolutely discolored, only individual letters can be distinguished, but this is not the one that had been issued in 1941, this is a document of the last days of the war. Where are the others? I do not know. Mark Traisman was wounded three times and suffered a contusion, may be, the other records have got lost in the hospitals or have gone along with the grandfather’s orders and award documents from the school museum.
In his military record the whole Great Patriotic War was placed in two pages, as it was for my grandfather. First, he served as a charge man in the 120th Mortar Division, a few months in the hospital, a gunner in the 490th Rifle Regiment, again months passed in the hospital, a pontonier of the 137th Separate Pontoon Battalion, then, he served in the 22nd Separate Unit of the deep drilling. As per the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet as of June 23, 1945 he was demobilized on August 25, 1945, having received another one medal that we have preserved, that is the medal "For Victory over Germany". Who has now the other awards of Mark Traisman, in whose hands - God will judge them...
Mark Traysman hardly spoke about the war. I know only that he put his membership card on the table in the Party district committee after the war (according to mom). Why did the secret police not touch him, I don’t know. He worked the rest of his life as a grinder at the sewing mill. Before the war, my grandpa was "godless", but after he returned home alive, he started praying, rewriting the prayers, keeping one hand by the other one (after a contusion, it worked poorly) in the notebook and read them every day, sometimes I saw tears in his eyes. And my grandfather was a very kind and cheerful man, he loved to play the grandmother and make merry over her.

Here is a brief war history, without details, highlights, descriptions of heroism ... That's all we can know by ourselves, because no one left to tell us...

Grandpa died in age 92 on February 23 in Soviet Army Day. Granny has gone six months after him ‘cause she was not able to live without him...