Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Czech unit of the Red Army in Dukla, Kiev and other places

Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Red Army Czech unit in Dukla, Kiev and other places Life before the war; move to Cesky Tesin. German occupation, 1939; forced labor cleaning and clearing rubble; deportation to Nisko with his father; escape to the Soviet occupied area; meeting with his brother and sister; deportation to forced labor camps in Taiga by the Soviets; joins a Red Army Czech unit under the command of Svoboda, 1942; combat in Kiev, Dukla, Charkov and the liberation of Ukraine; army rank promotions; victory parade in Prague at the end of the war, 1945. Appointment as director of in-service training for Israelis training in Czechoslovakia; appointment as liaison officer between the Czechoslovakian Army and the Israel Embassy regarding purchasing, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.