Testimony of Weiss Ruth, born in Vienna, Austria in 1922, regarding the Anschluss and her subsequent escape from Austria

Testimony of Weiss Ruth, born in Vienna, Austria in 1922, regarding the Anschluss and her subsequent escape from Austria Her childhood; her family is Orthodox; studies at the Zionist Chajes Gymnasium high school; activity of Zionist youth movements; occupation of Vienna by the Germans; the Anschluss in March 1938; Hitler's speech in Heroes' Square; her brother's arrest by the Gestapo and his release on the condition that he leave the Reich; the process of aliya to Eretz Israel; strict health examinations by the British in order to obtain aliya certificates; deportation of her parents to an assembly point from where they were transferred to Theresienstadt, because they could not pay for a passport; aliya to Eretz Israel with a group of young children via the port of Trieste on 6 September 1938; arrival at Tel Yosef; rehabilitation and absorption.