Testimony of Henry Fantl, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, military service within the Middle East area and via the Soviet Union in Sadagura and in combat in Dukla, Jaslo and Liptovsky Mikulas

Testimony of Henry Fantl, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, military service within the Middle East area and via the Soviet Union in Sadagura and in combat in Dukla, Jaslo and Liptovsky Mikulas 

Testimony of Henry Fantl, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, military service within the Middle East area and via the Soviet Union in Sadagura and in combat in Dukla, Jaslo and Liptovsky Mikulas 

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Testimony of Henry Fantl, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, military service within the Middle East area and via the Soviet Union in Sadagura and in combat in Dukla, Jaslo and Liptovsky Mikulas Born in Czechoslovakia. Military service as an officer during the Czechoslovakian general mobilization, 1938; dismissal from employment as a lawyer due to his being Jewish, 1939; formation of a military group while on a refugee ship sailing to Eretz Israel, 1940; explosion on the refugee ship,"Patri", near Haifa port, 1940; enlistment of a Jewish group detained in the Atlit camp for service in a Czechoslovakian battalion in Aleppo and Agami by Colonel Klapalek, 1940; mobilization in Eretz Israel for Czechoslovakian Army, 1941; appointment of Dr. Hanus Rebenwurzel as rabbi for Czechoslovakian military units, 1942; expansion of Czechoslovakian unit; transfer of Czechoslovakian unit to Tobruk for retraining as an antiaircraft unit, 1942; increase in antisemitism; transfer of Czechoslovakian troops to England after German defeat, 1943; transfer of some of the officers to Sadagura via the Soviet Union, 1944; marriage of Jewish women from Bukovina to Jewish Czechoslovakian soldiers as protection from Soviet deportation; enlistment of Jewish volunteers from Soviet POW camps and Jewish refugees from Hungarian labor camps in Czechoslovakian units in Bukovina; Slovak National Uprising; Soviet aid; collapse of Czechoslovakian attack at Krosno and Vrocanka; Jewish losses; removal of General Kratochvil from command; replacement by General Svoboda; fighting at Dukla, Jaslo, Ondava and Liptovsky Mikulas, 1944-1945. Information provided regarding: Flesh, Storfo, Ing. Gruenhut Gerger, Petr, Jindrich Hora, Roubicek, Klapalek, Selner, Bulander, Dubsky, Horacek, Valenta, Petruzela, Ingr, Gag, Dr. Arie, Pavel Steiner, Dr. Hanus Rebenwurzel, Emil Gregr, Bedrich Bas, Frantisek Fantl, jiri Hein, Josef Stein, Pavel Guttmann, Zeisler, Rozenwieg, Kratochvil, Strelka, Broz, Talsky.