Charles Hannam

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Charles Hannam (born Karl Ludwig Hirschland July 26, 1925 in Essen ; died May 28, 2015 in the county of Devon ) was a British educator who had to flee Germany as a child.

Life

Karl Hirschland was born in 1925 as the son of the Jewish banker Max Hirschland, owner of the Essen bank Levi Hirschland and Sons. As a student at the Goethe Gymnasium in Essen, he was exposed to hostility from classmates and teachers. During the November pogroms of 1938 he witnessed how SA men broke into his parents' house, looted it and destroyed the facility.

Hirschland was brought to safety in England in May 1939 with a Kindertransport ; his sister Margot, born in 1920, was also able to leave the country. The father, however, stayed with his father-in-law Louis Freudenberg in Essen, was disenfranchised and in the summer of 1942 deported with him from the Holbeckshof transit camp to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he was murdered on July 9, 1944.

Hirschland first found shelter in England in a youth home for refugees and then attended the Gilbert Hannam Grammar School in Midhurst . After graduating from school, Charles Hannam was a soldier in the British Army and served in the Asian theater of war in British India .

After 1945 Hannam worked as a teacher and later as a university lecturer in England and published various writings on didactics. In 1978 he published the first volume of a three-volume autobiography.

Hannam was married and had four children.

Fonts (selection)

Binding of the 2nd edition 1980 by Arena Verlag
  • Parents and mentally handicapped children . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association with MIND, 1975
  • with Pat Smyth; Norman Stephenson: The first year of teaching . Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1976
  • with Pat Smyth; Norman Stephenson: Young teachers and reluctant learners . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977
  • A boy in that situation: an autobiography . London, 1977
    • ... and then I had to go. The story of a Jewish boy from 1933 to 1940 . Translation by Charles Hannam, Eva-Maria Spaeth. Arena, Wuerzburg 1979
  • Almost to Englishman . London: André Deutsch, 1979
  • Outsider inside . Brighton: Alpha, 2008

literature

  • Gillian Lathey: A Childs View of Exile: Language and Identity in the Autobiographical Writings of Judith Kerr and Charles Hannam , in: Charmian Brinson (Ed.): Keine Klage über England? German and Austrian exile experiences in Great Britain 1933–1945 . Munich: iudicium, 1998, pp. 190–199

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ considerably smaller than the neighboring, but not affiliated, Simon Hirschland Bank in Essen
  2. ↑ Max Hirschland , at victim database
personal data
SURNAME Hannam, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschland, Karl Ludwig (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British educator of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2015
Place of death Devon (England)