Zeev Vaingarten

Testimony of Zeev Weingarten, born in 1935 in Dresden, Germany, about the experiences of his family in Germany, escaping to Ausstria, Italy, and Bulgaria, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 Offspring of a secular family in Dresden; father disengages from family because he left the Jewish faith; mother disengages from family due to death of her mother and remarriage to father; father is a shopkeeper; mother works for father as a bookkeeper; Nazi authorities draw up a list of customers of the shop and bar customers from entering the shop; shop closes for lack of customers; searching for a new job; father finds a position as a factory worker; witness born in 1935; deportation order to Austria is issued due to father's foreign citizsenship; family escapes to Vienna; life in Vienna; escaping from Austria in 1939; wandering; escaping to Italy; escaping to Bulgaria; boarding a ship bound to Eretz Israel with the help of Dr. Baruch Confino; life aboard the ship; entering Haifa port in Januaryr 1940; life in Eretz Israel.