Because of the Nuremberg Laws, I was not allowed to finish my education. I went to England for school from 1935 to 1937, from ages 16-18. From outside Germany, I saw what was happening. Germany had stopped the transfer of any German money abroad so I had to return to Germany in 1938. I convinced my family, even though it was very hard, to leave. I left Germany with my brother Werner in September, 1938 for Detroit. They were able to get an affidavit from a former German employee who worked at Sam’s Cut Rate in Detroit and Herman Osnos, a man from a prominent Detroit family. Two weeks after leaving Munich, the Germans came to arrest me.
On Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938 my father got a phone call, “Herman, get out!” My parents and sister joined me and Werner in February, 1939 in Detroit.
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