My grandfather died before I was born so this story has come to me from my father. When the Ottomans joined the war my grandfather was sent to Palestine and the front against the British in Egypt. During the fighting, I don't know at which battle - whether for the Suez Canal or for Gaza, my grandfather was taken prisoner. The Ottoman prisoners were put on trains towards Egypt for internment there. But the British had taken more prisoners than they cared to care for so they conveniently forgot to lock the waggon doors. Scores of Ottoman soldiers jumped the train! The story is that my grandfather then never rejoined the ranks but found his way back home to Istanbul on his own. If this is true it must be at the very end of the war when the Ottoman Empire were in its death throes. || A photograph from 1937 which shows my grandfather and grandmother on their wedding day. || || Nessim Haskiya, Rakel Haskiya || Photograph || My grandfather's wedding photo

The diary consists in short notes writen everyday on small sheets of paper. || Daily story of four years in the French 140ème régiment d'infanterie from Grenoble.

My great-grandfather Stefan Fromm and his battalion fighting for Germany at the Russian front in 1917, World War I || I wonder how to get more information about it records in Germany. || || Photograph || German soldiers, Russian front