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Testimony of Alexander Weiss, born in Rakosin, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian labor camps, with the Soviet partisans, in the Carpathian Ruthenian mountains and with the Czechoslovakian police force in Uzhorod Occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia by Hungary, 1941; deportation to Hungarian labor camps; transfer to Hungarian front line units; abuse by Hungarian officers; mine sweeping, 1943; escape of groups of Jewish laborers to the Soviet partisans; participation of Jewish partisans in operations in the Carpathian Ruthenian mountains, 1944; transfer to the Czechoslovakian police...

File Number : 90

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Bozena Elisheva (Hermann) Cohen from Czechoslovakia regarding her experiences in Hungary, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk

Testimony of Bozena Elisheva (Hermann) Cohen from Czechoslovakia regarding her experiences in Hungary, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk Dismissal of Jewish intellectuals from their employment in Prague, 1939; escape to Hungary; refugees in Soviet occupied territories, 1940; protection of political refugees and deportation of others; Czechoslovakian battalion in Buzuluk, 1942; activities of Jewish Communists; Communist indoctrination; influence of Czechoslovakian ambassador and Czechoslovakian Communists in Moscow; names of Jews tried in military field courts; trials of...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Alexander Masek Mermelstein, born in Cinadovo, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian forced labor camps, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Novokhopersk, in combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vrutsky and in a Communist camp in Czechoslovakia, 1949-1953 Jewish community life in Cinadovo; Hungarian occupation; persecution of Jews in Hungarian occupied territories, 1940; life in Hungarian labor camps, 1941; abuse of Jewish inmates by Hungarian soldiers, 1943; transfer to labor camps; concentration of Czechoslovakian volunteers in the Krasnogorsk...

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Moshe Elisha Landa, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1911, regarding his experiences as a Communist in Poland, England, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian army in England and in Dunkirk, and persecution by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia after the war

Testimony of Moshe Elisha Landa, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1911, regarding his experiences as a Communist in Poland, in England, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in England and in Dunkirk, and persecution by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia after the war Born in Hungary; receives a religious upbringing and education; becomes a devout Communist, 1926-1938. Escape to Poland, 1939; refused admission to Czechoslovakian Army unit in Krakow; not permitted to enter the Soviet Union; arrival of Communist refugees in England, 1940; relations with the Czechoslovakian government in exile before...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Teodor Fis, born in Vrutky, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, labor in Donbas, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzulak and Sadagura, and in combat in Sokolovo and Dukla Membership of Jews in the Czechoslovakian Communist Party since 1930; arrival of refugee groups in Katowice and Krakow, 1939; refusal of Jewish Communist refugees to join the Czechoslovakian military group in Bronowice, 1939; situation of the refugees in the territories occupied by the Soviet Union; assistance from the Communist International organization, 1940; enlistment of...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Czech, German