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Between 1924 and 1927, individual chaluzim from the Jungjuuml;discher Wanderbund and the Hechaluz were known to have lived and worked in Grüsen. In 1925, it was designated a „kosher center“, with the chaluzim distributed among the village's farms.
On August 17, 1934, an appearance was made before the district council. On August 17, 1934, the tiler Gerhart Boltes from Kassel appeared before the district administration office in Frankenberg and explained that the Hechaluz youth department of the local Zionist group in Kassel intended to accommodate four boys and two girls for about six months with the landlord and innkeeper Jacob Marx in Grüsen. They were to be accommodated with the Jewish farmers in Grüml;sen for training in agriculture in preparation for emigration to Palestine. The district administrator and the state police office in Kassel raised no objections. The apprenticeship in agriculture was necessary so that the Jews could obtain the entry certificate for Palestine. 

From 1937, Grüsen served as the headquarters of the „Mittlere-Hachschara“. During its existence between summer 1934 and fall 1938, a total of over 140 participants, men and women from all over the German Reich, underwent the training. However, the freer lifestyle of the young participants, most of whom came from the city, was not without consequences. They were repeatedly found bathing very sparsely or completely undressed in the ponds in the Hainaer Wälder. In August 1935, the Haina gendarmerie station filed a complaint with the district attorney in Marburg against a couple because they had violated the morals and sense of shame of the rural population in the worst possible way and had caused a public nuisance through their actions. Shortly afterwards, the young man was taken into „protective custody“. The most serious incident before the November pogrom occurred on the evening of July 14, 1938. July 1938, when National Socialists from Haina and the surrounding area (SA and SS members and members of the Hitler Youth) were arrested in civilian clothes under the leadership of the local group leader;led by the local group leader as part of a „punitive expedition“ in retaliation for an alleged insult to the „leader“ by inmates of the kibbutz.