Testimony of Walter Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1905, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel via Kaunas, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in the Middle East, England and Dunkirk

Testimony of Walter Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1905, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel via Kaunas, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in the Middle East, England and Dunkirk 

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Testimony of Walter Urban Ueberreich, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1905, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel via Kaunas, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in the Middle East, England and Dunkirk Escape to Lithuania, 1939; assistance from the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army unit in the Middle East, 1940; transfer to the Middle East; Jews in the Agami training camp; antisemitic incident in Kantara; life in the Czechoslovakian battalion in Gedera, Metula, on the El-Alamein front and in besieged Tobruk, 1942; transfer of Czechoslovakian troops to England, 1943; training for the Czechoslovakian tank brigade, 1944; religious observance arrangements organized by Rabbi Dr. H. Rebenwurzel, the Jewish army chaplain; observance of Pesach, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana; struggle against antisemitism by Rabbi Rebenwurzel; combat at Dunkirk, 1944; Jewish losses, including exact diary entries; welcome in liberated Czechoslovakia; military parade in Prague. Activities after demobilization, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1949.