Eliezer Asher

Testimony of Eliezer Asher, born in Groningen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, using a false identity in Altengrabow and a German village Son of the Chief Rabbi of the Groningen region; orphaned of his father at a young age; attends a public school; member of the Zichron Yaakov religious Zionist youth movement; life on an aliya training facility in Amsterdam, 1936; studies at an engineering school; drafted into the Dutch Army, August 1939. Entry of the Germans; return home; move back to Amsterdam; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life, including labor at school; escape from the ghetto; arrest by the Dutch police; deportation to Altengrabow POW camp; life in camp as a Dutch POW, including agricultural labor; transfer to a sub-camp of Altengrabow; camp life including labor in the bakery; transfer to a village in the area; village life; leaves the village, early 1945; liberation. Meets with British soldiers; move to Zell; move to Nuernberg; move to Belgium; return to the Netherlands; work in a Jewish orphanage; return to Amsterdam; life on an agricultural aliya training facility; aliya to Eretz Israel with forged documents via Marseilles, 1947.