Testimony of Yitzkhak Fritz Klein Kali, born in Mainz, 1918, regarding his and his family's experiences in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main until his aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1939

Testimony of Yitzkhak Fritz Klein Kali, born in Mainz, 1918, regarding his and his family's experiences in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main until his aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1939 His family's life and roots in Mainz; religious customs and traditional prayers; displays of antisemitism; Nazi rise to power and witness' escape to relatives in Strasbourg, 04 April 1933; deportation from France, 1935; joins aliya training with Bachad in Frankfurt am Main, 1938; visit of the Fuehrer during Sukkot 5799/1938; capture of Polish Jews in schools and their deportation to Poland, October 1938; influence of the murder of vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris by the Jewish student, Herschel Grynszpan; Kristallnacht, 09-10 November 1938; burning of the synagogues; witness' escape back to Mainz; efforts made to obtain certificates for aliya to Eretz Israel; move to Munich, 14 March 1939; deportation of Jews to Dachau; sets sail from Trieste to Eretz Israel. Aliya to Eretz Israel 1939; helps to establish Moshav Beit Meir, 1950.