Testimony of Bozhena Erzsebet (Herman Fridman) Cohen, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding her experiences in Katowice, Lwow, Luck and serving in Svoboda's Czech Brigade in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Bozhena Erzsebet (Herman Fridman) Cohen, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding her experiences in Katowice, Lwow, Luck and serving in Svoboda's Czech Brigade in the Soviet Union From a financially secure traditional family; attends a Jewish school and a Czech High school; studies law at the university in Prague; marriage; illegally crosses the border with help from a Polish officer, 1939; moves to Katowice with her husband. Outbreak of the war; wanderings to Luck on foot; Soviet occupation; labor with her husband as Communist foreign language teachers in the nearby village; studies pedagogy in Lwow University; life until the outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with the wives of Soviet officers; labor as a teacher; volunteers for Svoboda's Czech Brigade, which had been established in Krakow and moved over to the Soviet Union following the German occupation; life in the Brigade including social work activities and setting up a military tribunal; contact with Ludwik Svoboda; promotion to officer rank; life in Ukraine with the soldiers; life as an investigator and defense attorney; trip to Moscow as representative of the Czech Brigade; return to Prague as a heroine at the end of the war. Birth of her daughter, 1945; life in Prague; death of her husband, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.