Testimony of Joseph Erwin Kahn, born in Mittelsinn, Germany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Mittelsinn and Heiden

Testimony of Joseph Erwin Kahn, born in Mittelsinn, Germany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Mittelsinn and Heiden Life before the war; attends an area Jewish school; antisemitic harassment by non-Jewish children while en route to the school. Deportation of his father to Dachau; help from Jewish families; children help with agricultural work; Kristallnacht and the burning of the synagogue; breaking-in of homes; Jewish families are hidden in the metal workshop of a non-Jew in the village; transfer of Jews to Frankfurt; separation from his mother and sister, and the witness is placed in an orphanage; transfer to Switzerland in a group of children, January 1939; life in a dormitory in Heiden; release of his father from Dachau; maintains contact with his parents and sister by letters, until 1942; life in the dormitory including maintaining his attachment to Jewish tradition; activities in the Swiss Scouts movement. Aliya to Eretz Israel with the Gordonia movement, September 1945; receives details regarding the death of his father in Majdanek.