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- Emigrated to Palestine on 8/13/1942, bringinig his sister Thea and his half brother Gerhard.
From the foreword of Nathan’s autobiography, weritten by publisher Erhard Roy Wiehn:
“Double pioneering work
Nathan Höxter was born in Berlin in 1916, his father is a field rabbi and later served in the " Beth-Zion " synagogue ; the boy grows up in a strictly religious family home with three siblings, remembers an anti-Jewish incident as early as 1921, is a good student and hears the word "Zionism" for the first time in a Jewish high school. He is 12 years old when his father dies, moves away from religious life, sees the economic need as a boy, sympathizes with the left, joins the Young Jewish Wanderbund, makes friends with Polish-Jewish children from the Berlin Scheunenviertel, sings in the choir of the "Old Synagogue", plays football in the Jewish sports club " Maccabi ""is injured and arrested at a demonstration, especially feels the growing anti-Semitism.
Nathan is meanwhile caught up in the "storm of Zionist-socialist ideas from Palestine", seeks contact with Recha Freier, who learns from the BenSchemen children's village near Tel Aviv, which was run by the Berlin doctor Dr. Siegfried Lehmann is headed. Nominated by the Young Jewish Wanderbund as a candidate for emigration , he is now preparing for Palestine and is leaving Berlin in a first "test group" with five 16-year-old boys on October 12, 1932, in order to soon go to the later famous children's village and / or the so-called "Children's Republic" Ben-Schemen arrive at Tel Aviv.
After graduating from the local agricultural school in the summer of 1934, Nathan and his girlfriend Nechamah , who came from Russia with their parents, went to the small kibbutz Geva , which was founded in 1921 near the Gilboa mountain : "Now I was a true pioneer at the age of 18 . " Yes, and according to the kibbutz motto: "Everyone gives everything and demands as little as possible", now begins for the two young people who get married in 1936 a true pioneering life in the development of the country - " Awoda iwrft - Hebrew work" !, whereby Nathan nachund after, working in all sectors of agriculture in Geva is the first to set up a sheep farm, which belongs to the English auxiliary police and the illegal Jewish defense organization Hagana .
Nathan succeeds in bringing his older sister Thea and younger brother Gerhard from Germany to Palestine, while mother Salomea and his older brother Isi die in the Schoáh. “ [1, 2]
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