Between Fear and Hope
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Between Fear and Hope
This book is about a small portion of the German Jewish reaction to the increased burdens placed on them by Hitler and his accomplices. Many tried to emigrate or at least have their children emigrate. The affluent found it easier. For those less fortunate training centers were set up to train youth an enable them to emigrate as skilled agricultural labor. Most of the centers led to emigration to Palestine. The case study in this book was non-secular and wanted the youth to emigrate to countries other than Palestine. Unfortunately the camps were closed and emigration halted in 1938/9. emigration training farm.
Werner T. Angress
June 27, 1920 - July 05, 2010
Werner Angress was a member of the Black Pennant Jewish youth group and began an apprenticeship on the Jewish emigration estate Groß Breesen in Silesia in 1936. In 1937, his family fled abroad to evade National socialist persecution, Werner Angress emigrated to the United States in 1939. After working in agriculture for two years, Angress joined the U.S. Army in 1941. Having trained with the infantry, he went to Camp Ritchie in 1943 and became one of the Ritchie Boys, a unit set up to study and demoralize the enemy and persuade them to surrender. They were also trained for interrogations. In 1944, he was shipped to England and allocated to a paratrooper unit. His plane took off for France on the night of June 5, 1944, one night before the Allied invasion of Normandy. It came under fire and Angress, who had never made a parachute jump, landed far away from his intended destination. He was captured by German soldiers but soon liberated, and went on to fight in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. On May 13, 1945, he found his mother and his two younger brothers in Amsterdam. He learned that his father had been deported to Auschwitz in 1942. He had been murdered there in January 1943.