Testimony of Moisij Kopejko, born in Dubno, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Uzbekistan, a labor battalion in the Ural Mountains, as a Red Army soldier, liberation in Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Moisij Kopejko, born in Dubno, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Uzbekistan, a labor battalion in the Ural Mountains, as a Red Army soldier, liberation in Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; increase in antisemitism, 1937. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; outbreak of the war, 1941; escape with the retreating Red Army via Rowne and Kiev; life in Uzbekistan; drafted to a labor battalion in the Ural Mountains; life in the Ural Mountains including labor as a electrician; drafted into the Red Army, 1944; combat against the Germans; participation in the liberation of Auschwitz; wounded; wound again at Frankfurt an der Oder; hospitalization in Germany and Poland; recovery; return to Germany as a translator; release from the Red Army as a disabled war veteran, 1947. Return to Dubno; starts a family; life after the war; activities to commemorate the Holocaust; aliya to Israel, 1999.