Testimony of Vilem Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Nisko, in Soviet forced labor camps, and in combat as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, Sokolovo, Belaya Tserkov and Dukla

Testimony of Vilem Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Nisko, in Soviet forced labor camps, and in combat as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, Sokolovo, Belaya Tserkov and Dukla 

Testimony of Vilem Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Nisko, in Soviet forced labor camps, and in combat as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, Sokolovo, Belaya Tserkov and Dukla 

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Testimony of Vilem Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Nisko, in Soviet forced labor camps, and in combat as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, Sokolovo, Belaya Tserkov and Dukla Service of Jews from Ostrava in the Czechoslovakian Army, 1938; deportation to Nisko, 1939; escape to Lwow; return to German occupied Ostrava; arrest upon second escape; deportation to labor camps in the Archangelsk region, 1940; Soviet amnesty, 1941; life in the Soviet Union; work in factories and a kolkhoz, 1942; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk; participation of Jews in the Czechoslovakian battalion; description of the Sokolovo battle, 1943; participation of Jewish officers and instructors in the Czechoslovakian brigade at Novokhopersk; participation of Jews serving in the cavalry unit in the Kiev battle; preparations for the Kiev military parade on the occasion of President Benes’ visit; mobilization of the Volhynia Czechs, 1944; formation of the Third Czechoslovakian brigade in Sadagura; antisemitism; attempts by Jewish officers to save Bukovina Jews from Soviet deportations; the Dukla campaign; Jewish heroism and losses; life in Soviet prisons, labor camps and hospitals. Care for war invalids in Czechoslovakia, 1946; situation after the Communist coup, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.