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Very early on Dr. Lothar Eisner was considering immigration to Palestine. Thus 1935 he spent several month in Palestine, but because at that time Palestine was an arabic developing country he couldn't get himself to stay there.
Nonetheless, he prepared himself by attending a Hachschara in Neuendorf. Hachschara were training-courses, that prepared Jewish people consequently for the settlement in Palestine. They were trained in handcrafts and agriculture and were familiarized with their own culture and religion. The organization Hechaluz (Hebrew: Pionier) which mostly was responsible for that courses later merged into the Kibuz-movement.
After having been released from the concentration camp Buchenwald under the provision to exit Germany as soon as possible he started to plan his expatriation intensively. Since he havened been able to gather visa for Palestine by the mid of 1939, he feared that he would be arrested again. Therefore he fled to England on July 14, 1939. He received a visa for England because a friend of him, an engineer, living in England provided an avidavid.
Here you can find the deregistration from Germany.
As soon ad being provided with visas for Palestine he would travel to Triest from England via France. But the beginning of WWII frustrated this plan and he wasn't able to use the tickets he had already bought in Germany for 123,-- RM.
Here you can find the unused tickets.
Thus his sojourn was prolonged which became an issue because he had no working permit. He had to rely on the support of Jewish friends and of a Jewish support organization.
And because of the start of WWII he also lost his luggage. He had left two boxes/suitcases in Stuttgart and wanted to send them directly to Palestine after his arrival there. This was then impossible. In the boxes were more than 150 books, a lot of cloth and articles for basic use.
Here you can find the list of the lost items.
Then he managed to get tickets for the Belgium ship "Princess of Liege" which was to go directly to Palestine. The ticket price of 30 Pounds was paid by his friends.
Before leaving England on December 13, 1939 he met his family a last time. He arrived in Haifa on January 22, 1940. In the first year of his residence in Palestine he again had to rely on the support of friends because he had no secure job. He could only a little bit of money by giving private English lessons. He could live only on the breadline.
At the beginning of 1941 he was employed by the British Military Administration (Pay corps) to do clerical work. This meant a fixed salary although t it was quite low - on the one hand because it was unskilled word and on the other hand the British Military paidd their own people higher salaries than immigrants.
