Testimony of Hanna (Eschwege) Gutmann, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, transfer to Heiden and in Lucerne with the Kindertransport

Testimony of Hanna (Eschwege) Gutmann, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, transfer to Heiden and in Lucerne with the Kindertransport Life before the war; from a religious-Zionist family; move to a village; move to Frankfurt am Main. Kristallnacht, November 1938; help from a neighbor who was an officer; detention of her father; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; return of her father to Frankfurt am Main; transfer to Switzerland together with her sister and brother with the Kindertransport, 1939; transfer to a Jewish institution in Heiden; life in Heiden; correspondence with her parents; deportation and murder of her parents in Riga, 1941; life in an institution, until 1942; life in Lucerne; work as a housemaid for a Jewish family; end of the war. Life in aliya training, aliya to Eretz Israel, September 1945.