Testimony of Bezalel Chaykovich, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army

Testimony of Bezalel Chaykovich, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army Studies in a high school and joins the Beitar movement; draft into the Polish Army. Return to Kalisz at the outbreak of the war; move to Lvov; marriage; move to the Soviet Union; enlists in the Polish People's Army; deserts the Polish Army. Travel to Italy; activities to establish the Beitar movement; his wife joins him; aliya attempt; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel 1947; activities in the Irgun; participation in the battle for Jaffa in Israel's War of Independence; leaves Israel due to illness, 1960; return to Israel, 1974; life in Rishon Lezion.