Testimony of Yisrael Walter Harling Hadar, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Vienna and making aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony of Yisrael Walter Harling Hadar, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Vienna and making aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Life before the war; attends a Jewish kindergarten; learns Hebrew; activities in Maccabi Youth and Hanoar Hatzioni. Kristallnacht including burning of synagogues, 1938; life in Vienna including closure of Jewish businesses; establishment of a soup kitchen by the Jewish community; activities of his father in a World War I veteran organization; agricultural training; preparations for aliya with Youth Aliya; aliya onboard the ship "Galilah", 1939. Knowledge concerning the circumstances of his parents’ and brother’s deaths in Minsk; enlists in the Jewish Brigade.