Testimony of Shmuel Mendelsohn, born in Berlin, 1921, regarding his experiences in aliya training and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Testimony of Shmuel Mendelsohn, born in Berlin, 1921, regarding his experiences in aliya training and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 Persecution of Jews including economic boycott and Kristallnacht; forced labor by father, laying railroad tracks; deportation of relatives to the East, 1942; murder of relatives in Auschwitz-Birkenau, February 1943; manual labor on Gottesgabe estate near Werneuchen; aliya training on the Skaby estate in same region; transfer with training group to Romania...