Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin From a family of limited means; attends a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; Beitar and Gordonia activities; enlists in the Irgun. German occupation; aliya training; arrest by the Soviet authorities; escape to the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer to Stalingrad; camp life including labor digging pits and in refineries; attempt to enlist in Anders Army; detention; drafted into the Red Army; combat in Berlin and liberation of a women's camp in the Sudetenland. Aliya to Israel, 1957.