Testimony of Otakar Huppert, born in Belsko, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his Zionist movement experiences before the war, during his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and Sadagura

Testimony of Otakar Huppert, born in Belsko, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his Zionist movement experiences before the war, during his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and Sadagura 

Testimony of Otakar Huppert, born in Belsko, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his Zionist movement experiences before the war, during his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and Sadagura 

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Testimony of Otakar Huppert, born in Belsko, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his Zionist movement experiences before the war, during his escape to the Soviet Union via Poland and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and Sadagura Zionist activities in Ostrava, 1930-1939; information regarding Chanan and Shlomo Rozen. German occupation; escape to Poland after German occupation, 1939; deportation to Nisko; expulsion to Soviet demarcation line at San; Ukrainian assaults; NKVD arrests and interrogations; life of Jewish refugees in the Lwow region, 1940-1941; formation of the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk; problems due to his being Jewish; activities of Jewish Communists; combat at Sokolovo, 1943; Czechoslovakian brigade at Novokhopersk, 1943; influx of Ruthenian and Jewish volunteers seeking to serve in the Czechoslovakian brigade at Novokhopersk; Czechoslovakian brigade at Jefremovo, 1943; attitude of Soviets and Slovaks towards Jewish soldiers; participation in battles in Kiev, 1943, and Bila Cerkev, 1944; mobilization of Czech minority in Volhynia, 1944; Czechoslovakian Army Corps in Sadagura, 1944; marriage of Jewish women from Bukovina to Jewish Czechoslovakian soldiers to avoid deportation to the Soviet Union; Dukla campaign; Slovak National Uprising, 1944; mobilization in liberated Slovakia, 1944; weakening of Jewish influence; Jews in key army positions; displays of antisemitism during the war and in liberated Czechoslovakia.