Jewish Vocational School Masada [SEP] inception
Jewish Vocational School Masada
The Jewish Vocational School Masada in Darmstadt was established and run by Samuel Milek Batalion between 1947 and 1948. The school trained and prepared about 45-60 Holocaust survivors for the purpose of building a kibbutz in Israel. Although the school only existed for ten months, it nevertheless represents an important aspect of the post-war history of Hesse and a manifestation of the re-emergence and establishment of Jewish life in post-war Germany.
The School.
The Masada school was a Betar School
discharged in August 1949.
He married Miriam Kalmus on November 8, 1949 and raised two daughters. After his wife died in 1980, he married Falla Minkowitz in 1981, with whom he emigrated to Canada.
The Exhibition.
Lea Dror-Batalion did some intensive research about her father Samuel Milek Batalion and the Masada Vocational School in Darmstadt. The result was an exhibition about the Jewish Vocational School Masada which was developed in cooperation with Renate Dreesen from the Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck-School in Darmstadt.