Memoirs of Otto S. Leib, born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Mandatory Palestine, 1933-1937
Memoirs titled, "Auf Umwegen nach Amerika, Die Familien- und Lebensgeschichte eines Konstanzers in Amerika" ("Arrival to America in a Roundabout Way: Family and Life History of a Constanzer in America").
Born in Kreuzlingen, 1909, son of Ivan Leib from Constanz, Germany, and Hedwig (Bloch) Leib, both Jewish; family life, sister, Ida Esther, born in 1912; school attendance in Constanz; commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg and Bochum,...
File Number : 3701
Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Correspondence, Certification, Bibliography, Article, Investigation Report, Genealogy, Note, Memoirs, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Letter(s), Photograph, Research Article
Testimony of Yitzhak Getel, born in Breslau, Germany, 1921, regarding his experiences in Breslau before the war and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939
Deterioration of the economic situation with the Nazi rise to power, 1933; membership of his father in the Reichsbanne, a left-wing paramilitary organization; details about the period during 1933-1939; behavior of Gestapo men; definition of his sister as a Mischling, born of a mixed marriage; continued deterioration of the economic situation, 1938; dismissal of his father from his work; meets inmates who returned from Dachau and remained silent; aliya training in...