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Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from Bratislava, October 1939; arrival to Eretz Israel by means of the Turkish "Sacaria" ship, 28 February 1940; stay in Atlit for six months; basic army training in Sarafand; enlists in the Palestine Pioneer Corps 608; service in Alexandria and Tobruk; transfer to Greece on the "Ulster Prince" ship; taken captive by the Germans; transfer to a POW camp in Wolfsberg, Austria; transfer to Lubowitz camp, February 1941; arrest by the Gestapo, October 1944; transfer to the prison in Ratibor camp; release from the prison; transfer back to Lubowitz camp; transfer back to Wolfsberg; [death march] from the camp of sick POWs via Dresden to Fallingbostel camp, 08 March 1945; liberation by the British Army; Transfer to England; life with all of the Palestine Corps soldiers in a camp and in Keele Hall Holding and Transport Camp near Newcastle-under-Lyme; receives a telegram from Theresienstadt, with information that his parents and sister are alive, May 1945.
item Id
9992026
Type of material
Diary
Newspaper clippings
Official documentation
Survey report
Telegram
File Number
389
Language
English
German
Record Group
O.48 - Miscellaneous Documents Collection
Original
NO
Connected to Item
O.48 - אוסף תעודות שונות
Form of Testimony
Written testimony