Testimony of Malvina Strebingerova Lanzerova from Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Lwow, a forced labor camp, Samarkand and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and Sokolovo Outbreak of the war, 1939; expulsion of Jewish families from Ostrava; life as Jewish refugees in Lwow, 1940; deportation to labor camps; amnesty for Czechoslovakian inmates; transfer to Samarkand; work in a kolkhoz; contacts with the Czechoslovakian Embassy and the military mission; problems of Jewish refugee families traveling to the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; military training; combat in Sokolovo, 1943; heroic deaths of Malvina Strebingerova Lanzer’s brothers; role of Jewish women in army units; war widows during the war. Hardships in liberated Czechoslovakia.