Testimony of Joseph Mikhelashvili, born in Kulashi, Georgia, 1919, regarding his experiences in labor camps, using a false identity in Ukraine, with the partisans, as a Red Army soldier in Warsaw and Berlin

Testimony of Joseph Mikhelashvili, born in Kulashi, Georgia, 1919, regarding his experiences in labor camps, using a false identity in Ukraine, with the partisans, as a Red Army soldier in Warsaw and Berlin Life before the war; attends public school and learns to be a shoemaker; enlists in the Red Army; army life including transfer to Vladimir Volynskiy. Outbreak of the war; capture by the German Army; transfer to four labor camps and escape; life using a false identity in Ukraine; joins the partisans; escape to the Red Army; army life including officers' training course; active combat in Warsaw, near the Oder River and Berlin; end of the war and continued military service. Release from the Red Army and return to Kulashi; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1969.