Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires

Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires His childhood in Germany; increase in antisemitism. Kristallnacht; dismissal of his father from his work as a representative of a German company; deportation of his father to Sachsenhausen, 1938; receipt [by his father] of an exit permit from Germany; release of his father from the camp, early 1939; move to Hamburg with help from his father's German Communist friend; obtaining of a forged visa to Bolivia for mother and child; smuggle of his father; move from Germany, 1939; sets sail via the United States; refusal of the United States to accept his family members; sets sail via Panama, Peru and Chile; refusal by Panama, Peru and Chile to accept his family members; move to La Paz, Bolivia, 1939; life in La Paz including his parents' work for a Bolivian [government] Minister; obtaining of entrance possibilities [visas] to Bolivia for all the members of his extended family in Germany, 1939; move of his family to Buenos Aires, 1941. Aliya to Israel with Machal, 1949.