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Description
- Title:
- Eyewitness account by Walter Rosenberg of his life in exile and work in the resistance during the war
- Summary:
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The author, born at Dortmund, emigrated to Holland, in 1938, lived in the “Umschulungslager” Werkdorp until March 1942 and joined the Dutch organisation of resistance called “Nanno” (Kurt Reilinger) With the help of Heinz Frankl he got to France together with about 10 Dutch “Aryans” and as many other German Jews. Here they used freely German conveyances and the author worked in German plants as Organisation Todt, in the French workshop of the Henschel Flugzeugmotoren, for the German “Feldpost” etc. During all this time, he was in contact with the Resistance movement. Agents of the British intelligence service turned out to be in the service of the Gestapo. Many arrests; the Jews sent to camps survived (most of them). The author avoided the arrest, went to Holland in 1945.
- Witness:
- Rosenberg, Walter
- Number of pages:
- 4 pieces
- Date(s):
- 1956-4
- Catalogue ID:
- 105325
- Reference number:
- 1656/3/4/229
- Subject:
- Resistance Gestapo
- Location:
- France Netherlands
- Date Range:
- 1939-1945
- Type of Material:
- Eyewitness account