Testimony of Yoseph Bar Gal [Burdzhel], born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1934, regarding his experiences in Tunis under the German occupation, eviction from his home, and his activities in the Mossad in Tunisia after the war
Testimony of Yoseph Bar Gal [Burdzhel], born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1934, regarding his experiences in Tunis under the German occupation, eviction from his home, and his activities in the Mossad in Tunisia after the war
Testimony
Family background—traditional family; his father was director of a Jewish company that sold musical instruments; the neighborhood was mostly Italian-French; attendance at a French school; expulsion from school; German occupation at the end of 1942; air raids; sudden eviction from their home after their neighbors informed on them; German withdrawal in May 1943; return home; joining Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1948; active in the movement up to his aliya in 1956; training by the Mossad and return to Tunisia as a Mossad agent up to his official aliya to Israel in 1958; posting to France; his life up to this testimony.
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item Id
9685573
First Name
Joseph
Last Name
Ber Gel
Burgel
Date of Birth
03/03/1934
Place of Birth
Tunis, Tunisia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives