Eugen Valdhorn

Testimony of Eugen Valdhorn, born in Wattenscheid, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Zbaszyn, Uzbekistan and as a Red Army soldier Life before the war; Habonim membership; his father's death; competes in championship boxing for youth. Deportation to Zbaszyn; celebration of his Bar-Mitzvah in Zbaszyn; joins aliya training; his mother’s return to Germany; murder of relatives; outbreak of the war and escape to the Soviet Union; hardships en route to Uzbekistan; enlists in the Red Army using forged documents; displays of antisemitism within the military; combat against the German Army; air-raid on a train loaded with ammunition; escape from the train; investigation on the charge of espionage; discharge from the Red Army, 1948. Marriage; requests political asylum in the Israeli Consulate; aliya to Israel with his family, 1967; reunion with his mother after a separation of 27 years.