Testimony of Gershon Plata, born in Lututow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ukrainian villages and combat as a Polish soldier serving in the Wanda Wasilewska unit

Testimony of Gershon Plata, born in Lututow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ukrainian villages and combat as a Polish soldier serving in the Wanda Wasilewska unit From a family of Gur hasidim with hardships; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to the east; drafted to forced labor for the Soviets; release at Brzesc Nad Bugiem, 1941; German occupation; wanderings and hiding in various places; life in Ukrainian villages using a false identity; joins the Wanda Wasilewska unit of Polish soldiers; combat in various places including Berlin; end of the war. Escape to the American Occupied Zone; help from the JDC; life in the Landsberg DP camp; move to the Netherlands and Belgium; aliya to Eretz Israel from Sete, France, on the ship, "Theodor Herzl", 1946.