Recha Freier

Prinz: „A year or two before Hitler, Recha Freier came to me to tell me that she expected Hitler to come to power and that we had to save Jewish children by taking them to Palestine. This was the foundation of the Youth Aliyah that was later taken over by Henrietta Szold. But the real founder was Recha Freier, and the founding took place in my home. It was, I believe, in 1931. To me this idea seemed fruitful and took into consideration the reality that very few other people recognized.“

1933

Gudrun Maierhof schreibt: "[Freier] also contacted Henrietta Szold and the labor movement in Palestine [around 1933]. She asked Szold, the founder of Hadassah, to take over responsibility for the teenagers arriving in Palestine from Europe. Although Szold was initially of the opinion that the plan was not feasible, she ultimately agreed to become the director of Youth Aliyah’s Jerusalem office and to coordinate accommodation for the young people in Palestine. As a result, she was frequently (and incorrectly) assumed to be the founder of the Youth Aliyah. Due to the clash between their very different personalities, these two valiant women rarely met. Despite their common goals, Recha Freier was repeatedly rebuffed when she tried to speak with Henrietta Szold. Neither the strong resistance that Recha Freier’s idea initially encountered nor the many subsequent difficulties and misunderstandings that beset her remarkable program prevented thousands of German teenagers from leaving Germany for Palestine in the next few years and thus saving their lives.

Eine Pädagogische Festwoche für Kinder und Jugendliche. Die Veranstaltung fand im Trausaal der Synagoge Levetzowstraße statt.

Der Vortrag wurde im Rahmen eines Vortragsabend der Jüdischen Jugendhilfe gehalten.