Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places

Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places Death of his parents before the war; education in a Jewish orphanage in Berlin; move of relatives outside Germany. Kristallnacht; crosses the border of Belgium with his brother; concentration of the refugees from Germany on the French-Belgian border; German occupation of Belgium, 1940; transfer of the refugees to France by the authorities; camp life, in Gurs and Saint Cyprien camps; volunteers for labor; help from the Jewish Agency; organization of aliya training in the south of France; searches and manhunts by the Germans; hides his identity; move to the Alsace-Lorraine region; joins the Maquis underground; sabotage of railroad trains; liberation. Joins the De Gaulle military forces; work as a translator for the French Army in Germany; move back to Avignon; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.