Testimony of Benjamin Gunter Born, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in hiding

Testimony of Benjamin Gunter Born, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in hiding His childhood in Germany during the 1930s; witness was the only Jewish pupil in his class. Expulsion from the school; calling of insults by children; unsuccessful attempts [by his family] to leave Germany; transfer of his mother to forced labor in a factory; his father receives a work permit as a truck driver; deportation of relatives to camps; rumors concerning the murder of Jews in pits; extension of [his father's] work license; rescue from a deportation; deportation of his family, October 1944; escape from the tram, en route to the deportation; in hiding while hidden by a family friend; liberation, May 1945. Return of his grandfather from Theresienstadt; [knowledge regarding the] murder of his parents and sister in Auschwitz; witness joins a children's home; aliya to Israel within the context of Hashomer Hatzair, 1948.