Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in

Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in 

Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in 

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Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Poprad and more Military service as an officer in the [Austro-Hungarian] Army during World War I; an active Zionist and of the Maccabi leaders in Brno from 1919; cooperation between Maccabi and Hashomer Hatzair in the prepapration of Jewish youth for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935; help provided by the movement to 2,000 Jewish refugees from Austria during the general mobilization in Czechoslovakia and until their deportation to Nisko and Theresienstadt, 1941; as vice-chairman of the Jewish community in Brno until 1941, involvement in Maccabi activities, including organizing the aliya of three groups to Eretz Israel via the Danube, and preparations for deportation; deportation to Theresienstadt, 1941; life in Theresienstadt until 1944; cooperation with the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders); promotion of Zionist activities; organizing the resistance movement, obtaining arms and working with the leading members of resistance, including Freddy Hirsch, until after the arrest of Jacob Edelstein; transferred on the last transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, 1944, despite warnings from Lederer, an inmate who escaped from Auschwitz; transfer to a building squad in the Gleiwitz camp; from there to Blechhammer; liberation by the Soviet Army, January 1945. Assistance from the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) in Krakow; enlistment as an officer in the Czechoslovakian Army in Poprad, March 1945; demobilization, 1946; arranging the Maccabi Congress in Trencianske Teplice; participation in the Zionist Congress in Basel as a delegate; serving as vice-president in the restored Council of Jewish Communities in Prague; helping found the"Circle of Jewish Participants of the Czechoslovak Resistance Abroa"; raising funds for arms for Israel, 1948; participation in the Zionist Congress in Luhacovice; volunteering for the Czechoslovak Haganah Brigade for Israel; aliya to Israel, 1949.