Testimony of Michael Pertzov, born in Osowa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Finland, in captivity in Siauliai, combat along with the partisans in Belorussia, the occupation of Warsaw and other places

Testimony of Michael Pertzov, born in Osowa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Finland, in captivity in Siauliai, combat along with the partisans in Belorussia, the occupation of Warsaw and other places Life before the war; education in Pinsk. Drafted into the Red Army, late 1940; military service in Leningrad; outbreak of the war, 1941; combat in Finland; transfer to a POW camp in Siauliai; transfer to a different POW camp in Siauliai; escape, 10 May 1942; move to Belorussia; meets partisans; life with the partisans, late 1942; move to the supply department, February 1943; liberation, July 1944. Enlists in the Red Army and volunteers to serve at the front; participation in the occupation of Warsaw and Berlin; service in Germany until late 1946; return to Osowa; move to Lodz; serves as the executive secretary of a group of people planning to found a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz; aliya to Eretz Israel via Czechoslovakia, Austria and France on the ship, "Exodus".