Biography – Page 2

Leon Gottlieb

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.

Heinz Dehn’s wife and their two small children, his mother and other close relatives were murdered by the Nazis.

Ida Dehn, née Flieder, from Hanover, lost all her relatives – her parents, three brothers and a half-brother and his family in the Holocaust.

Ida had to flee her hometown of Hanover at the age of 16 in order to survive.

The Kitchener Camp was a transit camp for Jewish refugees in Richborough, Kent in 1939/40.

The Nussbaum family, friends of Ida’s parents, took Ida with them to Australia.

A Jew and anti-fascist in concentration camps, forcibly divorced and deported to Australia.

A Berliner flees from the Nazis, is deported to Australia, returns and is politically active in West Berlin – against the trend of the Cold War.