Testimony of Yehoshua Hermann Korn, born in Cologne, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Bialystok and Vilna

Testimony of Yehoshua Hermann Korn, born in Cologne, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Bialystok and Vilna His childhood in a family originally from Poland; attends a Jewish elementary and Jewish high school; Nazi rise to power, 1933; activities in the Bachad movement, Brit Hanoar; life [in Cologne] until 1938; deportation of his father to Zbaszyn on a train; life in a rented apartment with other deportees; activities with his friends from the movement; move with the movement to aliya training on a farm near Bialystok, spring 1939; life on the farm, including work. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; Red Army occupation [of Bialystok]; life under Soviet occupation including the harassment of a Zionist group; move to Vilna; life with the group until summer 1940; Red Army occupation [of Vilna]; life outside Vilna while waiting for a visa; move with the group by ship via Odessa to Istanbul, January 1941; move to Eretz Israel via Syria and Lebanon; life in Eretz Israel including the establishment of Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzhak in the Negev, 1943; participation in the War of Independence, including being wounded; re-establishment [of the kibbutz], 1950.