Solomon Lapidus - First Assignment
Transcript: My first assignment was to go to the railroad, and this the Germans...was watching. There was a little tiny bridge. And they were hiding underneath the bridge. [We] should be very careful. We used to go this in the night time, not in the daytime. Now they ask me a question -- we picked a time when [it will get] light, you know, when the light, because you shouldn't get lost, you understand, you shouldn't panic. And they told us that this train will reach this hour this place -- and be ready. And I came out, I had four people watching me, and I took another man with me, and two Russian horses, because we didn't walk -- we already had horses. And I was the one that put up...not in the first wagon, but in the third one. I put in dynamite, and I took a [capsule] from a grenade, and I put it underneath. It had a wire, and I was way in the back, at least about 100 feet. And I was waiting till the third...come into this [depicts passing train with hands], and I pulled the wire. And it was like this...[spreads arms out], they thought it was a thunder. They didn't believe it. "What happened? What happened?" And it start going in the...flying, people were flying in the air, tanks was over there. And while this happened, I escaped, I went back to the woods. And the next day, the people that we [overrun] told us what happened that night. Who is the guy that did this job? And it was reported...it was reported to the high command. And who was my commanding...? [Panamarenko]. He is the general of the partisan movement. And then I went another time, and I went another time, and that was my job.