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Arie Yehuda Meier

Testimony
Testimony of Yehuda Arie Meier, born in Lublin, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in German captivity as a French soldier Move as an orphaned baby to Karlsruhe; life in Karlsruhe after the Nazi rise to power; studies in a teachers college, 1932-1938; move to Strasbourg to learn in a yeshiva; enlists in the French Army; service in Wuerzburg; taken captive as a POW by the Germans; impersonates a French farmer; accused of being a spy; transfer to a German POW camp; claims illness; return to France; drafted to agricultural labor in Limoges; marriage, 1943.
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4314936
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Arie
Yehuda
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Meier
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1917
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Lublin, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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18/07/01
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18/07/01
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MEIER ARIE YEHUDA
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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