Testimony of Eva Wagner, a former employee of the Palaestina Amt (Palestine office) in Berlin, regarding her experiences in Berlin during the years of the war, living illegally in Krkonose (Riesengebirge), and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939-1946

Testimony of Eva Wagner, a former employee of the Palaestina Amt (Palestine office) in Berlin, regarding her experiences in Berlin during the years of the war, living illegally in Krkonose (Riesengebirge), and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939-1946 - Gradual dissolution of the Palaestina Amt (Palestine office): dismissals of civil servants and their reassignment to work in war factories; deportation of employees; transfer of the Jewish offices to the office of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), 1941; - Deportation of the Jewish workers at the war factories, 1943; - Measures against Jews immediately after the outbreak of the war: turning in of radios, telephone sets and cars; eviction of Jews from their houses; shopping restrictions and insufficient food supply; yellow badge, autumn 1941; prohibition on using public transportation, late 1942; separate air-raid shelters for Jews, which did not really protect them; - Air-raids at night; results of the air-raids; - Detention of the witness at Berlin-Moabit and Alexanderplatz; escape to Krkonose (Riesengebirge), early 1944(?); life there in complete isolation; - Streams of refugees, early 1945; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1945; - Legal registration with the Czech authorities; protection against expulsion due to her promised certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel; journey to Prague; waiting for the certificate; journey to Germany without permission from the military authorities, late 1945; daily life after the war; return to Czechoslovakia under dangerous conditions a few weeks later; receipt of the aliya certificate, 01 April 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel, 01 August 1946.