Kurt Crohn
Kurt Crohn (born January 22, 1896 in Köslin , † probably 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German educator of Jewish origin. He saved the lives of many Jewish children.
Life
Kurt Crohn was the son of David and Margarethe Crohn. He was a pupil of the Jewish orphanage in Berlin . After graduating, he was initially a teacher in the Berlin district of Pankow . In 1936 he was given the job of managing the Jewish orphanage in Berlin. After the nationwide pogroms in 1938, Crohn and his wife Susanne managed to organize the departure of numerous Jewish orphans with Kindertransport to Great Britain and the Netherlands , thereby saving their lives. He himself stayed in Berlin with his wife and daughter because he did not want to leave the children entrusted to him. After the orphanage was closed in 1940, Kurt Crohn headed the now amalgamated Berlin Jewish orphanage " Auerbach-Pankow " in Prenzlauer Berg until it was closed on December 31, 1942. The Crohn family was arrested in June 1943 and transferred to the Deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp . While his wife and their daughter Renate survived the Holocaust , Kurt Crohn was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on September 28, 1944 and murdered there a short time later.
Crohn's daughter Renate later emigrated to Israel . According to plans by the Berlin District Office in Pankow, Street 39 and Street 41 in the Pankow district are to be renamed after Susanne and Kurt Crohn. The project has so far failed due to protests from local residents. (As of March 2006)
literature
- Bechar, Renate: My father - director Kurt Crohn, a brief memoir of her family's experiences during the war.
- Peter-Alexis Albrecht , Leslie Baruch Brent, Inge Lammel (eds.): Disturbed Childhoods. The Jewish orphanage in Pankow as a place of refuge, security and expulsion . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-1571-5 (= series of publications by the Dr. Walter and Margarete Cajewitz Foundation ; vol. 1), on Crohn especially pp. 135–141
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c “Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945”. Federal Archives 2007
- ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
- ^ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crohn, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator of Jewish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1896 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |