Arie Reikhshtul

Testimony of Arie Reichshtul, born in Vladmir, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Vladmir Ghetto, combat in Lublin-Zhitomir area and Warsaw Childhood; learns in a "heder" before the war. Soviet occupation, 1939; receives a plot of land from the authorities; German occupation, 1941; deportation to a ghetto; life in the ghetto, forced labor and "Aktions, 1942; hiding in an attic; escape to Trostianka until 1943; encounter with Red Army soldiers; move to Lustik; drafted in Smolensk; drafted to Wanda Wassilievska's Polish Army; life in Krasnaya; combat in the Lublin-Zhitomir area; wounded in Rembertow in the battle for Warsaw; recuperation in Chelm; released from the army in Lublin, 1945. Move to Prague with the help of the JDC, 1945; training in the Landsberg DP camp; move to Tradate DP camp in Italy; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; reunion with his sister; odd-jobs in construction; enlists in the IDF; combat in all of Israel's wars; testimony against war criminal named Westerheide, Germany, 1971.