Testimony of Yosef Gleiser, born in Karlow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Karlow Ghetto, with the Jewish partisans and combat as a Red Army soldier

Testimony of Yosef Gleiser, born in Karlow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Karlow Ghetto, with the Jewish partisans and combat as a Red Army soldier Life before the war; membership in Beitar; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Karlow Ghetto; ghetto life; assumes a false identity, 1940; escape to forests; joins the Jewish partisans; illegally crosses the border into the Soviet Union, 1941; enlists in the Red Army; combat against the Germans; wounded, 1943; hospitalization; release as a disabled war veteran; work in goldmines in Donbass; move to Kirghizstan; end of the war. Move to Lwow; marriage; return to Kirghizstan; birth of his son; attempts to receive permission to make aliya to Israel; aliya to Israel, 1990; absorption.