as of 1 january 1943, of the 10,250 soldiers and officers of the division, 7,000 of them were ethnic lithuanians and/or inhabitants of the lithuanian ssr. the total ethnic make-up of the division was: 3720 lithuanians (36.3%), 3064 russians (29%), 2973 jews (29%), and 492 of other nationalities (4.8%). although other sources cite figures of 2378 jews (23.2%) in the division, it is still the highest number of ethnic jews amongst all divisions of the red army. jews made 13% (136 persons) of all officers in the division and 34.2% of all soldiers in the infantry regiments. 12 soldiers of a division have been awarded the title, hero of soviet union, of them, four were jews: major volf vilensky, sergeant kalman shur, corporal grigorijus ušpolis and private borisas cindelis (posthumously).