Testimony of Zvi Urbach, born in Pabjanice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pabjanice Ghetto, various places in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Red Army

Testimony of Zvi Urbach, born in Pabjanice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pabjanice Ghetto, various places in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Red Army Childhood in Pabjanice; Beitar youth movement activity; meeting Zeev Jabotinsky, 1939. Establishment of the Pabjanice Ghetto; interrogation by the Gestapo; escape to Warsaw and meeting with his mother; escape to Lwow; transfer to Georgia, 1940; agricultural work and bookkeeping; transfer to Odessa, Ukraine; transfer to Pervo Minsk, 1941; drafted into the Red Army; training exercises and operations in the Dnepropetrovsk artillery unit; combat in Stalingrad, 1943; transfer with the Red Army through Ukraine, Romania and Hungary until the end of the war in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1945; return to Lodz, Poland, 1945. Work as a border smuggler while representing Beitar in the Bricha organization; move to Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946; reunion with his childhood sweetheart and marriage in Paris, France, 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947. Odessa, Ukraine; transfer to Minsk, 1941, drafted into Red Army; training exercises and operations in the Dnepropetrovsk artillery corps; fighting in Stalingrad, 1943; passage with Red Army through Ukraine, Romania and Hungary until the end of the war in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1945. Return to Lodz, Poland, 1945; work as representative of Beitar in the Bricha organization as a border smuggler; move to Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946; reunion with childhood sweetheart and marriage in Paris, France, 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.