“Konigsberg was surrounded and attacked. The city was a major stronghold. Our regiment did not participate in the attack though. Our task was to liquidate those who had been sent behind our front lines.”

Boris joined the NKVD after the war. He was 1 of 2 people to make it through training out of an initial class of 17. In 1948, Boris’ was tasked with investigating POWs for war crimes at a camp near Minsk:

“There were 30, 000 POWs in the camp. I had to interrogate them about their activities during the war. If they had not been involved in crime against civilians killing or burning down we sent them to Germany. We were 50 or so investigators working in the camp.”

Boris found former Olympic boxer Paul Schwiefer in the camp and made him his assistant. He developed a reputation as a tough and thorough investigator:

“There was a newspaper article about me in ’49. A general used to say ‘you get to Kravitz – you go to prison’ If they were involved in punitive measures… that was our task to find out. I remember interrogating a German. I asked him if he had been on the Russian front. He said ‘No’. ‘Where were you?’ ‘In Lemberg’. I didn’t know a thing about Lemberg. I looked up a map – it turned out to be Lvov. In ’39 Lvov was part or the Soviet Union. He was a Burgomaster. The investigation revealed his crime and he was hanged in Minsk in ’48. They were tried by ‘a Troika’ The whole trial was performed by three persons, Minister of State Security Lieutenant-General Tsunava, Republic Prosecutor Bondar, and Central Committee Secretary Gorbunov. We reported cases and they made their judgments – exile in Siberia for year or execution by shooting, depending on the case reported”.

Boris left the army in 1950. He immigrated to Israel before settling in Canada.