Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish Life before the war; his mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was a Jewish Communist; life in a non-Jewish workers' neighborhood. Visits by the Gestapo in his family's home; his father's work building hangars for the German Army; his father leaves his work due to relations with the factory manager; escape to an apartment with non-Jewish families; life in a room in the apartment; birth of his brother, 1942; his family hides the knowledge of his brother's Judaism from the hospital staff; deportation of the witness' grandparents and aunt to the East; hospitalization; draft of his German uncles into the German Army; witness attends school; receives an invitation to join the Hitler-Jugend movement; air-raids on Berlin and the death of many people; his father was involved in rescue on behalf of SS men; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1948.