How fake are these?

[EricFG]

And this seems to be the headline of the piece of paper. I wonder if it is readable?

Marc said:
> a membership booklet of the Red Aid (the Soviet version of the Red Cross),

This is interesting as well. After my inital post I saw that the cover said:
"ROTE HILFE" - German language for 'Red Help'
"SECOURS ROUGE" - French language for something similar
"RED AID" - in (obviously) English

Near the bottom there is a large area with the following block letters (that I can't translate):
М О П Р

[Kirchgoens]

That image you posted immediately above says something like "witnessed" in October '45 on the left side, and notes it's a copy on the right side?

[EricFG]

Originally Posted by Kirchgoens

That image you posted immediately above says something like "witnessed" in October '45 on the left side, and notes it's a copy on the right side?

Thanks Brian,
So I wonder what he witnessed??? This could be interesting.
I like that the date is Oct. 20. That's my B-day.

[Kirchgoens]

I stand corrected by my wife. It's a "Certificate of Illness", that word being "certificate" and not "witness".

[EricFG]

Great. So he catches the clap on my B-day. How exciting.

[ANZAC]

Originally Posted by EricFG

Great. So he catches the clap on my B-day. How exciting.

in the line of duty of course

[EricFG]

Re: the first book.

The bulk of the info is on the second page.
I transcribe it as:
1959 года обучался на
Курсах усовершенствования офи-
церското состава финансовой служ-
бы при Военном факультете МФИ
которые окончил с общей оценкой
М П
Начальнцк Военно-о
факульмема

1959г



And 'Prompt' translates it as:
1959 it was trained on Advanced training courses ofi - церското structure financial sluzh - at Military faculty MFI which would end with the general estimation of M П of Nachalntsk Military an факульмема 1959г

or

1959 it was trained on Advanced training courses офицерското structure of financial service at Military faculty MFI which has ended with the general estimation of M П of Nachalntsk Military an факульмема 1959г


I take it this booklet is this man's ID while training at this "Military faculty MFI"?

[UQWozza]

Hi Eric,

When using these services you need to run the hyphenated words together:

финансовой службы = financial service

офицерского состава = commissioned personnel = officers

факультет = faculty; school; department; department; division

Simon

[UQWozza]

I had a look in my lists of abbreviations and found the following:

мор = морской оборонительный район = mor = naval defensive region.

Don't know if it helps or fits.

Simon

[EricFG]

Thanks for your help Simon!