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I, Hans Gunter Adler, was born in Germany in 1923, the only child of Jewish parents. At the age of 13, I was no longer permitted in German schools. On Kristallnacht, November 1938, mass arrests of Jewish men began. In 1939, my parents fled to Shanghai, China. I immigrated to a kibbutz in Palestine. In 1941, I volunteered for the British Army serving in the Sahara Desert and European campaigns. In 1946, I regained contact with my parents who survived the war in a Shanghai refugee camp. They emigrated to the USA in 1948; I followed the same year. I lost too many relatives in the Holocaust to forget and forgive.

 

John Adler

Goldberg, Germany