Testimony of Moshe Moritz Gelbaum, born in Quakenbrueck, Germany, 1917, regarding his experiences in Hannover, Linden and Eretz Israel

Testimony of Moshe Moritz Gelbaum, born in Quakenbrueck, Germany, 1917, regarding his experiences in Hannover, Linden and Eretz Israel Life in Germany; his family's move to Hannover, 1919; his family's move to Linden, 1923; work as a counselor in Maccabi Hatzair; his father's activities in the Zionist movement. Departure from the Humboldschule school in Hannover, 1933; emigration of his brother and several family members to Eretz Israel; work in construction; serves as a supervisor (Meister) in Bauinnung, the German building workers union; witness is the sole Jew in the union; participation in mass marches of Germans; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; aliya of his parents to Eretz Israel; his brother remains in Germany; deportation of his brother to Zbaszyn, Poland along with his wife and baby daughter, 1938; rescue of his brother [from the deportation] due to intervention by the British commander in Eretz Israel; murder of Von Rath by Grinspan, who was born in Hannover and a classmate of Gelbaum's.