Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester

Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester His childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family; his family had roots in Germany, from 1700; his father was a [German Army] soldier in combat during World War I; activities in the Ebd [?] youth movement and in Maccabi Hatzair. Kristallnacht, November 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald; his parents' escape to England; his parents' escape to the United States; witness' activities as a counselor on the Kindertransport [en route] to England; meets his future wife; detention of the people in the group; transfer of the people in the group to a detention camp in Manchester; discovery of several spies among the refugees from Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria; draft of some of the refugees into the British Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel on a British Navy ship, 1945.