Autobiographical interviews of Jews born in German speaking countries ("Yekkes") - 50/60 years after their immigration to Israel

Hanna: 06/28/1920, Mannheim. Education: primary and secondary school, nurse's training school in Jerusalem (3 years). Emigration: 1939 from Ladenburg to Palestine (Jerusalem). Career: Nurse in Haifa (from 1943), private nurse and house nurse. Nurses old people. Shlomo: 05/16/1920, Saarland. Education: local school, courses in English and Arabic in Haifa. Emigration 1936 per ship via Triest to Haifa with mother and sister. One month in preparational agricultural camp, various jobs in Palestine, radio engineer in the army; works as radio engineer until time of interview, retired. Interview: Beginnings in Israel, H. was allowed to come as a nurse. Mother was in a concentration camp, was set free but stayed. Parents never thought of emigration. One brother emigrated to Australia, the other to Israel. 2 siblings on children's transport to England. Parents were not Zionists but religious. School in Germany. Strong religious life in Ladenburg. Religious upbringing, strictly kosher. Friendship with a Christian girl. Experiences with Nazis. About life in Germany. Relationships to non-Jewish families. Religious lessons. About Dr. Wallach, the doctor who let her come to Israel. Building the hospital. Shlomo: Anti-Semitic experiences, father was arrested in 1936. Policemen told father to leave. Sister and brother sent certificate. Munich, Triest, 5/6 days to Palestine. Preparational camp in Germany. Beginnings. Various jobs in Haifa. Siblings of parents died. Arrival to Haifa in ; 1936. How they got to know each other. Wedding in 1949. About children and grandchildren. During the war he was in the Czech division. Both spoke German with their families. Children speak German. Now they speak Hebrew with their children. About language. About death of aunts and uncles. How countries didn't let Jews in. About Jewish emigrants. He did not consider zionist emigration, had to take care of his mother and sisters. About changes in their religious life. Children are religious in a modern way. Living conditions in the beginning. Religious life in Israel. Visits to Switzerland and France. Hanna visited the towns of her childhood. About a group of people in Ladenburg who want to write a book about the history of its Jews. About the visit to Ladenburg. About school friends in Germany. About the bad consciousness of Germans. Judaism in Germany. Discovering of synagogues in Germany. About their children. About the word "Fuehrer", Goebbels, and Goering. Children know everything about the Holocaust. They wanted to know after a visit to a polish concentration camp. S's first visit to Germany in 1977. About the concentration camps and the Nazis. Gulf War. Peace in Europe and German politics. About race. About the Jewish community. Religion and Music.