HK: Certificate before passport
HK: Vienna
HK: 2003
HK: Holiday with friends
HK: Mother
HK: To the left of the teacher
HK: Wedding photo
HK: With wife and daughter
HK: with his partner Muriel Page Rodney
HK: Four sisters and brother at niece's wedding
HK: October 2003
HK: Father and sister in Leeds
HK: Father and sisters in Brighton
HK: With aunt and sister in Austria
HK: Siblings: Nellie
Herman Katz
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
Date of interview: 07/10/2003
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.
not able to get into Italy