Biography – Page 2

Wolfgang Kittel

Wolfgang Kittel was the only one who was allowed to leave the Dunera during their journey. Why?

George, a member of a respected Jewish family, escaped Nazi persecution to England, where he was deported as an enemy.

Escape, exile and return of a paediatrician.

A story about resolute resistance and the rescue of a Jewish girl in Paris.

A group of Jewish artists came to Australia via Shanghai. Some were acquainted with the Dehn family.

Josef Ganz (1898- 1967) – The co-inventor of the VW Beetle, expelled by the Nazis, goes to Australia via Switzerland.

Dr Hans Frankenstein – a Jewish paediatrician from Görlitz.

Eric Towers was one of the two best men of Heinz Dehn and Ida Flieder.

Leon Gottlieb was a Hamburg anti-fascist who travelled to Australia via Singapore on the Queen Mary.

The short article about the dentist Dr Ernst Friedlich, a witness to the Lebrechts’ marriage, refers to his “Flurgespräche” biography.