A Soviet Second War Order of the Red Star awarded to Captain of the Medical Service A. I....

A Soviet Second War Order of the Red Star awarded to Captain of the Medical Service A. I. Eisenstadt, who served as head of the X-Ray Section at Evacuation Hospital 4379 on the 2nd Baltic Front Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Red Star, 2nd type breast badge, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘395736’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screw-back suspension, good very fine £80-£100 --- Aleksandr Izrailevich Eisenstadt, a Jew born in Vilnius, Lithiuania, in 1905, joined the Red Army on 23 June 1941 and served during the Great Patriotic War with the Hospital for Light Wounds no. 2927, and then the Sorting and Evacuation Hospital no. 4379. For his services during the War he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, no. 395736, on 9 January 1944, the original recommendation stating: ‘Ever since he started working at Sorting and Evacuation Hospital no. 4379 in November 1942, Captain of the Medical Service Aleksandr Izrailevich Eisenstadt has been selflessly devoting himself to tending to wounded and ill soldiers. In addition to serving as head of the X-Ray Section, during the tense period between November 1942 and July 1943 he also led the section treating those troops suffering the severest of wounds and complications from gas infections. Occupying himself with the training of his men, he achieved an exemplary level of care and treatment for this category of patients. Through his selfless efforts, with him at times not leaving the ward for several days on end, he achieved the best results of the entire former Kalinin Front with regard to saving the lives of men suffering the severest of wounds. He ensured the X-Ray Section performed superbly, conducting 4337 X-ray scans of wounded and ill soldiers over the last 3 months alone. Comrade Eisenstadt is being nominated for the Order of the Red Star.’ Sold with copied award sheet and accompanying translation.