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AMNON BERTHOLD KLEIN

AMNON BERTHOLD KLEIN

VIENNA/AUSTRIA 1928

ARREST OF FATHER. HE WAS MURDERED. ESCAPE. INTERNMENT ON MAURITIUS. DEATH OF MOTHER. CHILDREN’S CAMP.

After the annexation of Austria, his father was arrested. Flat was “aryanized”. The father was murdered in 1942.

Amnon and his mother tried to get to Palestine illegally. They fled on cargo boats on the Danube and reached the Black Sea. British military interned them on Mauritius. The mother died of Typhus. Children’s camp.

1946: Arrival in Palestine. His international contacts have brought him back to Austria again and again.

Lest We Forget Israel 02-21-2019

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