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Testimony of Alon Schultze Chaim Günther, born in 1938 in Berlin, about a son born to a mixed marriage and forced labor in Berlin

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Testimony of Alon Schultze Chaim Günther, born in 1938 in Berlin, about a son born to a mixed marriage and forced labor in Berlin The witness: son of a Jewish mother and an Evangelist father; antisemitism by teacher and pupils when witness was in first grade; father transfers him to a Jewish school; family moves from apartment to apartment to conceal its Jewishness; authorities order father to divorce his wife; father sent to penal labor in 1935–1937; brother bullied in the street; brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Jewish-owned shops demolished; father works as a barber; hears from soldiers about the concentration camps; hides the yellow star in the street; disregards racial laws and has an affair with a German woman; does forced labor at a factory in Berlin in 1943–1945; alternates between Germany and Israel from 1949 to 1980.
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9043101
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Chaim
Gunter
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Alon
Shultze
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08/01/1928
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Berlin, Germany
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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26/05/2010
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26/05/2010
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אלון שולצה חיים גונטר
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection