Testimony of Jerry Holec, born in Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Uhersky Brod, Budapest, as a French Foreign Legion soldier in Beirut, in the British Army at Dunkerque and other places

Testimony of Jerry Holec, born in Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Uhersky Brod, Budapest, as a French Foreign Legion soldier in Beirut, in the British Army at Dunkerque and other places Life before the war. Displays of antisemitism with the annexation of the Sudetenland, 1938; draft into the Czech Army; German occupation; confiscation of Jewish property; detention by the Gestapo; release and return home; illegally crosses the Hungarian border via Uzhorod to Budapest; move to Yugoslavia; move to Syria via Istanbul; move to Beirut; joins the French Foreign Legion; transfer to Marseilles; joins the Czech Army in exile; joins the French Army, 1940; service in Agde; transfer to Liverpool; joins the British Army; combat in Dunkerque; combat in the south of Germany and Czechoslovakia. Reunion with his parents and brother; emigration to the United States.