The Rising Storm

Plot

Memoirs of a Jew from Germany, born in 1916 in the village of Flieden in Hesse; his family name was Wallach. In 1929 they moved to Fulda. Describes the Nazi rise to power and antisemitic incidents in Fulda. From 1933 Wallace was allowed to work in industry only as a volunteer, without wages. He became a leader in the Habonim Zionist youth movement, whose activities were limited by the Gestapo. In 1937 he lived in Hamburg in a Zionist youth movement house, until he was ordered by the Gestapo to leave the city. In April 1939, after having experienced the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in Frankfurt, he emigrated to England.