Testimony of Menachem Gross, born in Plechotice, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Slovakian Army in Svaty Jur, Ivanka, Kralovany, Banska Bystrica, with the partisans and a Czechoslovakian brigade

Testimony of Menachem Gross, born in Plechotice, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Slovakian Army in Svaty Jur, Ivanka, Kralovany, Banska Bystrica, with the partisans and a Czechoslovakian brigade From a well-to-do land owning family; Hashomer Hatzair activities. German occupation, 1939; decrees including expulsion from school, confiscation of property, yellow badge and the deportation of his brother to Poprad; draft into the sixth brigade of the Slovakian Army, October 1941; tranfer to Svaty Jur; receives help from the JDC and the Jewish community in Bratislava; return to Plechotice on leave and discovery that the village is empty of Jews; transfer to Ivanka; camp life including labor building; transfer to Kralovany; camp life including labor digging tunnels; escape to Banska Bystrica; the Slovak National Uprising and joins the partisans using a false identity in Topolcany, August 1944; life with the partisans including blowing up bridges and trains; joins a Czechoslovakian brigade; liberation, May 1945. Move to Prague; aliya to Israel, March 1949.