עדות של Karel Kurt Fanta Furcht, יליד 1912 Jihlava, צ'כוסלובקיה על קורותיו בפולין, בשורות הצבא הרוסי, ב-Buzuluk, ב-Novochopersk,וב-Sadagura

Testimony of Karel Kurt Fanta Furcht, born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, as a soldier in the Red Army and in Buzuluk, Novokhopersk and Sadagura 

Testimony of Karel Kurt Fanta Furcht, born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, as a soldier in the Red Army and in Buzuluk, Novokhopersk and Sadagura 

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Testimony of Karel Kurt Fanta Furcht, born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, as a soldier in the Red Army and in Buzuluk, Novokhopersk and Sadagura Born in Czechoslovakia. Escape to Poland with a Jewish group, 1939; help from the Jewish community in Krakow; differentiation among Jewish refugee groups in Poland; antisemitic attitude of Czechoslovakian consulate in Krakow; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Legion at the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice by Jewish refugees; fighting as Polish ally against the Germans by the Czechoslovakian Legion; capture and detention by the Red Army; arrest of some of the interned Czechoslovakian Legion soldiers by the NKVD; transfer of almost all (90%) of the interned Czechoslovakian Legion troops in the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakian military units in the Middle East and France, 1940-1941; formation of the first Czechoslovakian battalion, comprised of the remaining Legion troops, by Colonel Ludvik Svoboda in Buzuluk, January 1942; three quarters of the battalion forces made up of Jewish forced labor camp inmates who received amnesties; appreciation of the Jewish role in the Sokolovo battle by Ludvik Svoboda; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian brigade in Novokhopersk by Jewish escapees from Hungarian labor camps, 1943; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army in Sadagura by Jewish escapees from Hungarian labor camps, 1944; leading role of Jewish officers in battle of Dukla, 1944, and in Moravia, 1945. Leading role in organizing Czechoslovakian Haganah Brigade for Israel 1948-1949; dealing with Israeli diplomats in Prague by a Czechoslovakian Jewish group, 1948; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1949. Information provided regarding: Mudr. Taraba, Max Kral Kriegel, Novak, Gruen, Ludvik Svoboda, Fanta, Dr. Golias, Dr. Polak, Mudr. Libal, Mudr. Singer, Mudr. Engel, Mudr. Konicek, Mudr. Winterstein, Dr. Vojtech Erban Epstein, Bedrich Frantisek, Bohumil Lomsky, T. Prochazka, Bedrich Reicin, Brothers Lanzer, Goldberger, Malvina Fantova, Reich, Villi Kahan, Karel Fanta, Bubi Schaechter, Ehud Ueberaell, Erich Falter, Webert, Menechovsky.