Joachim Yahin Simon, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, known as Schouchou; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Joachim Yahin Simon, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, known as Schouchou; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Dror-Habonim and Hashomer Hatzair membership; arrest on Kristallnacht; deportation to Buchenwald; release from the camp; escape to the Netherlands, 1939; life in an aliya training facility in the Netherlands; escape to the Hechalutz main offices in Amsterdam, May 1940; replaces a courier who was arrested; increase in restrictio...