Testimony of Dov Beidel Koltun, born in Rzeczki, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Rzeczki, a Red Army construction battalion in Moscow and in the Polish Army in Berlin

Testimony of Dov Beidel Koltun, born in Rzeczki, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Rzeczki, a Red Army construction battalion in Moscow and in the Polish Army in Berlin Life before the war; life in the home of his grandfather; studies in a "heder" until age 13; helping his grandfather; Gordonia movement activities. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; Communist activities, 1939-1941; German occupation, 1941; receiving information regarding the situation of German Jewry; escape to the Soviet Union; life in the Soviet Union in a kolkhoz; drafted into the Red Army; transfer to a construction battalion; transfer to Moscow; doing private jobs to obtain additional food; drafted into the Polish Army; taking part in battles; transfer to Berlin; end of the war. Move to the US occupied zone; life in a DP camp; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Latrun", 1946; detention in Cyprus, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.