Testimony of Elli (Ginsburg) Strausberg, born in Lackenbach, Austria, 1925

Testimony of Elli (Ginsburg) Strausberg, born in Lackenbach, Austria, 1925 Childhood in a religious family; attendance at a Jewish elementary school. German occupation, March 1938; eviction from her home, March 1938; detention of her father and her sisters and their release by the witness; Kristallnacht; burning down of the synagogue; gathering the Jews in the witness' neighborhood and their abuse; escape by train together with her sister and another Jewish woman to the Swiss border, January 1939; illegal crossing of the border; first shelter as an illegal immigrant with her aunt in Lucerne; Bnei Akiva activities; life in Switzerland. Legal aliya to Eretz Israel via France, 1945; absorption in Kibbutz Beerot Itzchak.