Testimony of Zeev Villi Unger, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Brno and Prague until 1939

Testimony of Zeev Villi Unger, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Brno and Prague until 1939 Life before the war; the Jewish community; activities of the witness' father in the Mizrachi movement and the Jewish community; his brother's activities in the Blau-Weiss movement; membership in Maccabi Hatzair; burning of the Great Synagogue on Kristallnacht; his brother's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938. German occupation; displays of antisemitism; restrictions and decrees; confiscation of family property; witness' Bar-Mitzvah celebration; receipt of a telegram from the Gestapo in Prague; transfer to Prague; receipt of permission from the Gestapo to make aliya to Eretz Israel; move to Trieste via Vienna; confiscation of his Bar-Mitzvah present; separation from his parents. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; correspondence via the Red Cross; deportation of his parents to Theresienstadt; his sister's aliya to Eretz Israel; his parents' deaths in Auschwitz; marriage, 1948; starts a family; activities as Director of the Jewish Agency Future Planning Division; missions to Iran and the Philippines.