The origin of Adolf Burg’s parents Isaak Ber Burg and Taube Warech Burg was Zaklikow in  Poland. The family came to Czechoslovakia of the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. They were living in Rumburk, Northern Bohemia, Isaak was working in tailoring. On April 28, 1917 Adolf Burg was born in Rumburk. Before 1938 there was a Jewish community with a small synagoge in a prayer room.  Around 1920 there were living 18 Jews in Rumburk but much more were living in the closed neighbourhood town Varnsdorf, in Varnsdorf on the Jewish cemetery the mayority of deceased Jewish people were burried. In the late twenties the family settled down in Berlin-Mitte.      In that time Mr. Oto Fraenkel became the Rumburk community Rabbi. One of the Jews living in prewar time were the lawyer Max Meisl and his wife, the English-teacher Matilde. Max died 1943 in Terezin camp, Mathilde 1943 in Auschwitz. Another member of the small Jewish community was the physician Vilelm Orlik, who died in Terezin camp.      1930 Adolf Burg became Bar Mizwah in the Grosse Orthodoxe Synagoge Kreuzberg, Kottbusser Ufer, today Fraenkelufer. After the seizure of power by the Nazis the family tried to emigrate to the American Dominion of the Philippines with the last destination of New York but in the end it was not possible, the family was very poor and there was a strong limitation of immigration by United States. In October 1938 his father was deported from Berlin to Poland for ever.                                                                  HIS WAR TIME    Adolf Burg escaped 1939 through Poland and the Ukraine and was hidden in a Romanian village. But he was betrayed because he was a Jew. By SS he was put in a concentration camp near Czernovitz. His death was extremly near. But in a night he took a possibility to escape crossing a river into Soviet area, in this way he survived. He joined the Czechoslovak Independent Brigade in East Europe to fight against nazi-occupation, later he fought in the Csl. Samostatne Brigady v sssr of General Ludvík Svoboda and Lt. Col. Karel Klapálek.