Testimony of Pinkhas Horn, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Leipzig, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938, and service in the British Army in Africa and Italy

Testimony of Pinkhas Horn, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Leipzig, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938, and service in the British Army in Africa and Italy From a family in Leipzig that was originally from Poland; life during the Weimar Republic; attendance at a kindergarten named for Dr. Vaskin [trans. note: a Hebrew scholar who wrote instruction books on learning Hebrew for the German speaker]; attendance at a German school and a school named for [Rabbi] Carlebach; membership in the Bund youth movement; religious life; Nazi rise to power; economic boycott of the Jews; Nuremberg Laws; dismissal of their housemaid; Kristallnacht; escape to the Jewish cemetery; escape to the Polish Consul with other Jews of Polish origin; forced entry of SA soldiers into the family home; life in the Hamburg camp; Aliya to Eretz Israel via Trieste under the auspices of Youth Aliyah, late 1938; absorption; enlistment in the British Army; service in Africa and Italy; meeting Jewish survivors in northern Italy; transfer of Jewish refugees from Austria to Naples, and from there to the La Spezia port; expulsion from the British Army; return to Eretz Israel, 1945; enlistment in the Haganah, and afterwards the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); combat on Mt. Scopus.