Shimon Banai Bauman

Testimony of Shimon Bauman Banai, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Germany, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and service in the British Army His childhood in a family originally from Eastern Europe; membership in Bachad led by Dr. Josef Burg; attitude of the local population; Nazi rise to power, 1933; decrees; confrontations with the Hitler-Jugend; hides antisemitic posters during the Olympic Games, 1936; deportation of his father to Poland, 1938; Kristallnacht; rescue from the Gestapo by the concierge; aliya training in Fulda; receives an order to leave Germany within 24 hours. Aliya to Eretz Israel with help from Palaestina-Amt, the Eretz Israel Office, April, 1939; enlists in the British Army, 1941; participation in the establishment of the Jewish Brigade in Egypt, 1944; military training in the south of Italy; arrival to Tarvisio; riots in Ulm; ban on Jewish Brigade activities inside Germany; search for his family in Berlin.