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Image of Page 6, with illustration of Erwin's dirty hand
English Translation Page 6 reads...Our Beck worried about the greasy mud Erwin had to work with.
Erwin Tichauer, who introduced Gad to the He-halutz group, worked with Gad at a carton factory, together with other Jewish and forced foreign laborers. Erwin's daily duty of cleaning the greasy cutting machinery left him with dirty fingernails, illustrated here by Manfred.
About Erwin Tichauer
In October 1941, the first deportation train left Berlin for the East. Tichauer was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, but survived.
About Forced Foreign Labor