Testimony of Michael Lipel, born in Munich, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in a mixed family in Gauting and in hiding in Munich

Testimony of Michael Lipel, born in Munich, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in a mixed family in Gauting and in hiding in Munich Life before the war; his mother is Jewish and his father is a non-Jew; his father is an architect and painter; receives a catholic education. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father to the German Army; transfer of his father to the Soviet Union front; his father is wounded and hospitalized in a military hospital; release of his father, 1942; draft of his father to forced labor in a salt mine for the establishment of subterranean factories, 1944; life in Gauting; shelling from the Soviet Union; continuation of his education; his mother receives an order to report to the Gestapo; his mother receives poison from a dentist to commit suicide; suicide attempt of his mother and her rescue; his mother is kept in a hospital by a physician of Jewish origin; remains alone with two siblings; receives help from German neighbors; contact with his Catholic grandmother; transfer with his siblings to Munich; life hidden by his grandmother; life in a dark room during the day; escape of his father from forced labor; his father's remarriage. Move by his mother with the help of the American Military Police; contact with Youth Aliya and the Jewish Agency; aliya to Israel, 1949.