Description
Order of Glory 3rd Class #709875
Awarded to Private Leonid Konstantinovich Petrovsky (Леонид Константинович Петровский)
For being severely wounded by artillery shrapnel in the chest when returning from a scouting mission in 1941 and escaping several times(!) from concentration camps after being captured by the Germans
Made of silver and enamels. Measures 45.81 mm in width, 48.31 mm in height and weighs 21.5 grams without its suspension.
In excellent condition with crisp details and few dings and scratches to the silver only. The higher laying parts like the tower and wreath show almost no traces of wear and both sides are covered in an appealing layer of patina. The red enamels are beautiful and without chipping or repairs. Its connection ring has not been cut and the order comes with a time period ribbon and suspension.
Short translation of the research:
Private PETROVSKY Leonid Konstantinovich participated in the fighting on the Western front as a Radio operator of a separate signals battalion attached to 4 tank army.
Returning from a scouting mission on 16 October 1941 near the village Negorelaya (Minsk region), he was severely wounded by artillery shrapnel in the chest during an artillery barrage.
Being severely wounded, he was captured by the enemy on 17 October 1941 and was kept in the concentration camps in the towns Waldenburg and Scherenberg (Hirschberg) (Germany).
He escaped several times from the detention. The last time, he escaped the camp in June 1944, but was captured in Poland and returned back. He was liberated by the Soviet troops on 02 May 1945.
No discrediting information exists on him for his POW detention period.
At present, comrade PETROVSKY L.K. works as a shop manager at the Gorpischetorg organisation (the town food trading company) of the town Nikolaev, Nikolaev region. He has good work evaluations.
He has clean criminal record.
CONCLUSION: For taking part in the fighting against the Germano-Fascist invaders, he deserves to be bestowed with order “GLORY III class”.
Signed by military commissar of the Stalinskij district.
Colonel KRASILNIKOV
14 March 1957
Bestowed with order “GLORY III class” by the decree #261/20 issued by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR on 07.10.1957.
More information on Private Petrovsky can be find here
Also included in the picture gallery are two screenshots of the location of the concentration camps mentioned in the citation
Some information about the camps:
The Nazis established Gross-Rosen on the 2 August 1940 in Lower Silesia, as a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen, in the vicinity of the granite quarry of Gross-Rosen. On 1 May 1941 Gross-Rosen became an independent concentration camp; it remained in operation until mid-February 1945.
Gross-Rosen concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen) was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated during World War II. The main camp was located in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, in the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesia, Poland – it was directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Striegau).
At its peak activity in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 subcamps located in eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, and on the territory of occupied Poland.
Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) is one of the locations I found that one of the sub network of camps were located. The other places the Gross-Rosen sub camps were located include – Aslau, Bad Salzbrunn, Bad Warmbrunn, Bautzen, Bernsdorf, Birnbaeumel, Bolkenheim, Brandhofen, Breslau, Brieg, Brunnlitz, Bunzlau, Christianstadt, Dyhernfurth, Faulbrueck, Friedland, Funfteichen, Gabersdorf, Gablonz, Gsassen, Gebhardsdorf, Gellenau, Gorlitz, Graeben, Grafenort, Gross Koschen, Grunberg, Grulich, Halbau, Halbstadt, Hartmannsdorf, Hirschberg, Hochweiler, Hohenelbe, Kamenz, Kittlitztreben, Kratzau, Kretschamberg, Landeshut, Langenbielau, Liebau, Libenau, Maerzdorf, Mittlesteine, Namslau, Neuhammer, Neusalz, Niesky, Ober Altstadt, Parschnitz, Peterswaldau, Reichenau, Reichenbach, Sackisch, Schatzlar, Schweidnitz, Treskau, Weisswasser, Wustegiersdorf, Zillertal and Zittau.
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And some information of the Gross-Rosen camp network here
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