Hertzberg, Leopold

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Authority Biography/Administrative HistoryLeopold Herzberg was a Holocaust survivor
ProvenanceHERTZBERG, Leopold (HERTZBERGL)
Dates(s)1940s
Scope & ContentLeopold Herzberg's diary recounts his experiences during "Kristallnacht", his arrest and the first few days of his eleven-day imprisonment in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The copy housed in the Archive, and entitled Lest we Forget, has been translated from the German by his daughter, Mrs Ursula Cher. The latter also donated papers relating to her mother Ella Herzberg's entitlement to compensation from West Germany. However, Mrs Herzberg died on 21st June 1989, too late to benefit from such compensation.