Testimony of Schlomo Steinhorn (Pierre Lacaze), born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Foreign Legion in Algeria and the Jewish underground in France

Testimony of Schlomo Steinhorn (Pierre Lacaze), born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Foreign Legion in Algeria and the Jewish underground in France Completes his Law studies in Cernauti, 1932; moves to France; enlists in the French Army, summer 1938; wounded; transfer to the Foreign Legion in Algeria; return to France, late 1940; joins the Veterans Organization in Toulouse; contacts with the Armee Juive, the Jewish underground; relief activities for Jews escaping from the German occupied zone; obtains forged documents in the name of Pierre Lacaze, 1943; preparations for Jewish youth to illegally cross the border to Spain en route to Eretz Israel; a group of 120 people treks across the mountains; arrest by the Spanish Border Patrol; release; attitude of the local authorities in the Catalonia district towards the refugees. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the Portuguese ship, "Nyassa", 1944.