Before today 119 Josef Treiser was born years ago. At the age of four he moved to Kassel with his family. Josef and his nine siblings grew up in the working-class areas of Kassel, between Entenanger and Mönchebergstraße, on. The family was religious, all children attended the Jewish elementary school.
In addition to his commercial training, Josef Treiser began to get involved in the KPD as a teenager. In the course of this, he took on positions in various cities in the republic. As a Jew and communist, Josef was aware of the dangers of National Socialism from an early age.
After 1933 he went into exile in Belgium and later in France. There he joins the communist resistance, the Franc Tireurs and Partisans. As a lieutenant and major, he fights against the German occupiers and helps out, To liberate Europe from Nazism. First 1950 Joseph sees his family again, who was able to flee to Palestine before the Shoah.