Testimony of Aba Mydlarz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army in Vilna, Bialystok, Siberia, Sambor and other places

Testimony of Aba Mydlarz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army in Vilna, Bialystok, Siberia, Sambor and other places Family with many children; his father is a shoemaker and owns a shoe store; witness attends an elementary school and an ORT school; draft into the regular Polish Army in Vilna, February 1939. Surrender of the Polish Army, September 1939; escape home; escape to the East; move to Bialystok via Lwow; arrest by the NKVD, December 1939; deportation to Siberia; camp life including labor logging trees; release, September 1941; life in Sambor including work in a sawmill; enlists in the Anders Army, 1943; service in a labor battalion in Omsk; liberation; return home; enlists in the artillery corps of the National Army; combat including the occupation of Berlin. Release from the army, February 1946; receives an aliya permit; aliya to Israel, 1957.