Testimony of Zeew Willy Ritter, born in Vienna, Austria, 1913, regarding his experiences as Executive Secretary of the Hechalutz Movement in Vienna and regarding the Zionist organizations before annexation to Germany and afterwards

Testimony of Zeew Willy Ritter, born in Vienna, Austria, 1913, regarding his experiences as Executive Secretary of the Hechalutz Movement in Vienna and regarding the Zionist organizations before annexation to Germany and afterwards The Zionist organizations according to their political affiliation; influence of emissaries from Eretz Israel on various groups within the Zionist movement; activities as Executive Secretary of the Hechalutz movement from 1936; problems of Zionist education; establishment of an urban aliya training facility; movement branches at agricultural training facilities in the vicinity; the Zionist Federation; treatment of the pioneering movement in Austria regarding the distribution of certificates for aliya to Eretz Israel and treatment of the members of the movement in Germany. Annexation to Germany; relations between the Zionist organizations in Austria and Germany; influence of the Zionist education at the Chayut school on Jewish youth; role of the Eretz Israel Foreign Ministry Office in Vienna; relations between movement leaders regarding preferential assignment for aliya to Eretz Israel; attitude of the kibbutzim in Eretz Israel regarding Youth Aliyah; difficulties in emigration and aliya; meetings of Zionist representatives with Adolf Eichmann; legal and illegal aliya to Eretz Israel; names of Zionist and public functionaries and aliya activists.