O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis
 
 In the Collection there is documentation including testimonies regarding the resistance of the Czechoslovakian Jews against the Germans during World War II. The people interviewed include former soldiers and officers who fought in the Czechoslovakian Army, Jews who fought in the Royal British Air Force, served in partisan battalions in the Soviet Union or participated in the National Slovak Uprising. There are also testimonies regarding the treatment of Jewish soldiers who were POWs in German camps.
 
 The testimonies include personal and family information, as well as information regarding communities, Nazi persecution, escape, motivations for the resistance, living conditions in the labor camps in Hungary and the role of the Jews in the Czechoslovakian Army. In many testimonies, there is information regarding the Haganah organization in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1949, and persecution of the Jews during the Slánský Trial, 1952.