One might expect when the Nazi atrocities waged against Jewish life in Berlin began to take deadly turns, Jews would then begin to renounce their faith in droves; however, Hitler's violence bolstered Zionist Jewish faith, as well as the creation and cultivation of hachsharas—Zionist training centers to prepare Jews for their migration back to the homeland of Israel, also known as their aliyah. Though Gad Beck would follow suit and attend a hachshara with the goal of completing his aliyah, fate had other plans, wherein he would be forced back into the Nazi epicenter of Berlin. From the embrace of his aliyah, to the disappointment of its incompleteness, the twists and turns of fate placed Gad back into a Zionist embrace. And this time, that embrace would lead to love and an imminent life underground.