Testimony of Yakov Fride Shalev, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Berlin

Testimony of Yakov Fride Shalev, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Berlin Life before the war; son of a Jewish father and a converted mother; his father's leanings towards Zionism; connections of his father with the aliya training (Hachshara) camp; Nazi marches on the streets; dismissal of his father from his job, 1939; Eviction from his home and escape to a different neighborhood; severing ties with the non-Jewish family members; obtaining exemptions on account of his parents' mixed marriage; activity of the Jewish school, until 1942; wearing the yellow badge; marking the door to the house with a star; police hunting for Jews; activity of the Jewish cemetery in the Weissensee neighborhood; his father, together with other people, finding a hiding place in the cemetery; burial of ashes of those who died in Theresienstadt; his mother reporting to forced labor; locking himself up in the house with his brother; receiving food coupons; air-raids on his home; finding a hiding place together with his brother; his father being reported on; capture and murder of his father; liberation; Move to a Jewish orphanage; aliya to Eretz Israel from Marseilles on a ship, February 1946; life on Kibbutz Degania.