“If you tell anybody one word of what has happened here, we will get you wherever you are. On a little farm in America, on a desert in Africa, or in an Asian jungle.” – SS Officer to Leo before leaving Buchenwald.
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01/16/1899
Frankfurt am Main
Clara “Clarchen” Lina Schwarzschild
(04/23/1879 Hessen, Germany – 10/13/1936 Frankfurt, Germany)
Julius Kohn, MD (dermatologist)
(02/21/1865 Baiersdorf, Germany – 07/14/1927)
Married 04/01/1898 Frankfurt, Germany
Max Kohn (Spouse: Katharina “Elsa” Piron from Malaga, Spain)
(02/19/1900 Frankfurt, Germany – about 1985)
Married August 27, 1921 Frankfurt, Germany
Escaped to Malaga, Spain and changed his name to Max K. Piron
Rosette Gertrud Kohn (Spouses: Herbert Fritz Bondy, Gottlieb Eckhardt)
(09/03/1903 Frankfurt, Germany – 04/07/1952 Arusha, Tanzania)
Ernest Ferdinand Markus Kohn
(09/24/1923 Frankfurt, Germany – 08/04/2004 Anniston, AL)
Herbert Kohn
(09/27/1926 Frankfurt, Germany – 07/17/2020 Atlanta, GA)
1940-1944/45
Buchenwald
11/13/1938 – 11/30/1938
Prisoner No. 2469 or 29546
Served in the Germany Army during WWI as an infantry soldier on the front lines
His father, Julius, served as a doctor with the rank of Major. He was in charge of a military hospital and was one of the first field grade Jewish officers in the German Army
November 31, 1938: Emigrated to England
Dorah (Heyman) and Mervyn Sterne, Birmingham, AL
Registered for the US draft but never served
1940-1944/45