Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union 

Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union 

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Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union Born in Czechoslovakia; Chairman of the Students' Union in Prague, 1935-1936; leading member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party. Flies to Poland, 1939; joins Czechoslovakian Resistance Movement abroad, connection with General Lew Prchala; active in H. Field Refugee Committee in Krakow; rejection of Jewish refugees by the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice; flies into the Soviet occupied territories; Jewish Communist refugees protected from deportations to forced labor camps; finds work in a kolkhoz in Ust Medvedicky; assistance and control through Czechoslovakian Communist leadership in Moscow; persecution by the NKVD; transfer from the Soviet Union to the Middle East as part of a group of Czechoslovakian soldiers; the role of the Czechoslovakian military mission under Colonel H. Pika in the Soviet Union; situation of the Jews and Ukrainians arriving in Buzuluk; Jewish soldiers comprise 80 percent of the first Czechoslovakian battalion; appearance of Klement Gottwald for the first time in Buzuluk; request for help from the Czechoslovakian consulate in Kujbysev by Jewish POWs in Soviet camps; attitude of Zdenek Fierlinger, the Czechoslovakian ambassador in the Soviet Union, towards the Jews; preparation for the Sokolovo battle; significance of the Sokolovo battle; cooperation of Zdenek Fierlinger and Ludovit Svoboda with the Czechoslovakian Communist leadership in Moscow against President Edvard Benes’s government in exile. Information provided regarding: Herman Field, Vilem Novy, Edo Fris, Antonin Zmrhal, Jonas, Bernasek, Lew Prchala, Juraj Slavik, Kurt Markus, Rudolf Hajek, Vojta Erban, Presl, Jiri Frank, Imre Klein, Haftl, Oskar Benes, Kurt Schneider, Leopold Vojtechovsky, Fiznar, Spanelak, Jaroslav Vyhnanovsky, Julius Maibaum, Falta, Dr. Weil, Vojta Eckstein Erban, Ficnar, Jaromir Vyhnanovsky, Krosnar, Dezider Wolf, Rudolf Schmelz, Heliodor Pika, Alina, Klement Gottwald, Vaclav Kopecky, Zdenek Fierlinger, Ludovit Svoboda.