Editing Chanan Levin (section)

== At the Front ==
A week after his wedding, World War II broke out and he was drafted to the front.

In 1940, Rabbi Chanan was released from service, but in 1941 the Nazis invaded Russia and he was drafted again, immediately after his daughter was born - whom he managed to see with great effort.

With mesiras nefesh he kept the mitzvos of the Torah - and succeeded throughout his service not to be defiled by treif food and not to miss a single day without putting on tefillin, for which he even jumped into frozen water.

During his service, he wrote a diary describing his mesiras nefesh during the war.

After his service, he was offered to sign on permanently and remain in the army, but he evaded with various excuses.

In one of the years, he and his brother changed their family name to "Ariol" (eagle in Russian) because of the Russian authorities, but eventually (he and most of his family) returned to Levin.

He returned to Kiev where he met his brother, Shaul Levin, and learned that their parents were murdered in Babi Yar and that his wife and daughter were in Samarkand. He immediately traveled to Samarkand and met his wife. His daughter initially claimed he wasn't her father... but eventually accepted it.