Testimony of Arye Kurzweil, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Copenhagen, Ven, Malmo, Helsjon and other places

Testimony of Arye Kurzweil, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Copenhagen, Ven, Malmo, Helsjon and other places Life in Copenhagen before the war; religious family; witness attends a Jewish school; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement. German occupation, April 1940; sending of packages by his mother and grandmother to Jews in Germany; escape with his father and younger brother to a village, October 1943; life in the village in a cellar; receives food from the underground; escape on a fishing boat to Ven Island; escape to Sweden on a Swedish ship; life in Sweden in a hotel; move to Malmo; life in Malmo in a family's home; move with religious Jews to a forest in Helsjon; life in the forest in an abandoned summer camp; community life; attends a school in the area; hikes; escape to friends in Malmo, late 1944; life in Malmo including attending a Swedish high school in the area; liberation, 1945. Return to Copenhagen; life in Copenhagen including attending a Danish school; move to the United States, 1947; life in the United States in a Lithuanian yeshiva; dormitory life; life in Switzerland including studies and internship in an ORT school; aliya to Israel, 1955; work as a high school teacher; work as a professor in Bezalel [Academy of Arts and Design].