Herman Katz: Certificate before passport
Herman Katz: Vienna
Herman Katz: 2003
Herman Katz: Holiday with friends
Herman Katz: Mother
Herman Katz: To the left of the teacher
Herman Katz: Wedding photo
Herman Katz: With wife and daughter
Herman Katz: with his partner Muriel Page Rodney
Herman Katz: Four sisters and brother at niece's wedding
Herman Katz: October 2003
Herman Katz: Father and sister in Leeds
Herman Katz: Father and sisters in Brighton
Herman Katz: With aunt and sister in Austria
Herman Katz: Siblings: Nellie
Herman Katz
Born in Vienna in 1914
Born: 1914
Place of Birth: Vienna
Arrived in Britain: 01/09/1938
Interview Number: 35 (S)
Experiences: British Internment - Mainland Britain , Unaided Emigration
Interview Summary
Born in Vienna in 1914. Hermann Katz went to commercial college and worked in grocery shop. He came to the UK in September 1938 (Vienna-Milano-Zurich-Dieppe-New Haven-London). His parents came on Domestic Visas and he managed also to get Visas for other members of family. He was interned near Leeds.
Place of Birth
A policeman told my mother that I should get out. So that evening I took the train to Milan, to meet with my brother. …the Italian border police stopped me… they wouldn’t let me into Italy... I phoned my parents. They sent a young man called Meiers. Robert Meiers. He came, he met me there. And he said “I know another border where you will be able to get into Italy. We have to go through …a town called Villach.” And that was all right. I got through into Milan at that border.
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