Beyond Borders: Escaping the Holocaust and Fighting the Nazis. 1938 - 1948 (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II). This item is unavailable.Beyond Borders: Escaping the Holocaust and Fighting the Nazis. 1938 - 1948 (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

Berlin, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Rudi is summoned by the Nazis and informed that he is “under surveillance” as an enemy of the Reich. The circle of Nazi intimidation is closing in on him, his family, and all German Jews. Fearing for his life, and driven by his ideals, Rudi escapes to British Palestine to become a kibbutz pioneer, drying the swamps and training in the Haganah. As the Nazi Army under Rommel’s command lands in Africa, Rudi enlists in the British Army to fight the Nazis, serving as a member of the British Intelligence Service in the frontlines in Africa, Italy and Greece, participating in the battle of Anzio, and the liberation of Rome. After the Germans surrender, Rudi returns to devastated Berlin looking for his uncle, survivor of Terezin concentration camp.

Beyond Borders is the extraordinary memoir of a Jewish fighter, the story of a boy becoming man in wartime. Rudi Haymann (b. 1921), today a vibrant centenarian, shares his unique story as he ponders on war values, idealism, national identity, migration, first love, and family ties.

AUTHOR & SPEAKER / EXTRAORDINARY CENTENARIAN / KIBBUTZ PIONEER / WW II VETERAN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE / INTERIOR DESIGNER /

Haymann was born in 1921 in Berlin, into a German-Jewish family. At sixteen, he escaped Nazi Germany to British Palestine, where he became a Kibbutz pioneer, drying the swamps. As World War II developed, and the Nazi Army under Rommel's command landed in Africa, he enlisted in the British Army and fought in Africa, Italy, and Greece, as a member of the British Intelligence Service, and participating in the Battle of Anzio and the liberation of Rome. He was 23 years old. Meanwhile, his family had managed to escape to faraway Chile. At the end of the war, after 10 years of separation, he visited them and settled there, becoming an Interior Designer. Years later, he decided to write his story, now published world-wide.

He is now 102 years old, a centenarian on a Mission: to tell the story, to be a keeper of Memory. He is active as an Author and Speaker, in person or virtually, in schools, cultural institutions, military entities, and public or private events, he shares his story, the events he witnessed and acted on, and inspire others on resilience, values, and quality longevity.