Maayan Landau

Testimony of Maayan (Freier) Landau, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her mother, Recha Freier, who set up Youth Aliyah in Berlin and Zagreb Daughter of Rabbi Moshe and Recha Freier who established Youth Aliyah; attends schools in Berlin; warning given to her father to beware of the Gestapo by the Gestapo on the day after Kristallnacht; her father's escape to England; her mother's community activities; her mother' meets with Adolf Eichmann; escape to Zagreb via Vienna with her mother, June 1940; life in Zagreb; her mother's activities moving orphaned children from Berlin to Yugoslavia; help from the Yugoslavian police; organizing of a school and Hashomer Hatzair activities in Zagreb for the refugees. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Bulgaria and Turkey, 1941; her mother's meeting with Henrietta Szold; establishment of the Agricultural Training Center for Israeli children by her mother; studies at Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek.