Testimony of Gideon Gerhard Pangerl, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin

Testimony of Gideon Gerhard Pangerl, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin Childhood in Berlin as the son on a non-Jewish father who converted to Judaism and a Jewish mother; life under the Nazi regime from 1933; dismissal of his father due to his marriage to a Jewish woman; anti-Jewish legislation; the family receives easier conditions because they are a mixed family; attendance at a Jewish school; Kristallnacht events, November 1938; deportation of Jewish members of his family to concentration camps; his father leaves the Jewish community; antisemitic propaganda; wearing the Yellow Badge from September 1941; deportations to Łódź; murder of his non-Jewish uncle because he was mentally ill; closing of the Jewish school, 1942; being sent to forced labor at a military factory in the area; the "Factory Aktion", February 1943; release from the collection point because he was from a mixed marriage; the Rosenstrasse-Protest (demonstration on behalf of those arrested); transfer to labor cleaning away the rubble in the city; meeting Soviet POWs; deportation of his father to a labor camp due to his refusal to divorce his Jewish wife; secret entry into movie theaters; activities of Jewish informers; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945; Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption.