Testimony of Gustav Maier, born in Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Uzbekistan, in a Soviet camp in Ural, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Kiev and Dukla

Testimony of Gustav Maier, born in Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Uzbekistan, in a Soviet camp in Ural, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Kiev and Dukla 

Testimony of Gustav Maier, born in Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Uzbekistan, in a Soviet camp in Ural, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Kiev and Dukla 

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Testimony of Gustav Maier, born in Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Lwow, Uzbekistan, in a Soviet camp in Ural, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Kiev and Dukla Born in Czechoslovakia. Deportation to Nisko, 1939; escape to Lwow; life in Lwow; labor in Soviet coal mines, 1940; Jewish refugees living in a Korean colony in Uzbekistan, 1941;deportation to a labor camp in the Urals, 1941; role of Jews in a Czechoslovakian reserve battalion in Buzuluk, 1942; role of Jews in a Czechoslovakian brigade in Novokhopersk, 1943; motives for enlisting in the Czechoslovakian brigade; antisemitism in the Czechoslovakian brigade; combat at Kiev and Bila Cerkev; Jewish officers and commanders of military units; establishment of the Czechoslovakian Army Corps, 1944; arrival of Jewish officers from Czechoslovakian units in England; impact of the Slovak National Uprising on the Dukla campaign, 1944. Disillusionment after demobilization, 1946; organizing the Jewish Brigade for Israel: leading personalities, recruitment of volunteers; assistance of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party and the Czechoslovakian authorities; military training camps at Libina and Strelna; transports to Israel, 1948-1949; absorption into Israeli military units; settlements in Ijsim and Kfar Maharal; opinion regarding Ludvik Svoboda; antisemitism during the war campaign and in liberated Czechoslovakia.