Abraham, Hans Leo (Henry)
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Abraham, Hans Leo (Henry) |
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| Date of birth | 1933 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Hamburg |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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| Document | passport of Haiti |
| Fate | survived |
Abraham, Hans Leo (Henry) (1933–?)
Born on 23 September 1933 in Hamburg, Germany, to Siegfried Abraham and Gerda née Schwarzstein. Two years later, he emigrated with his family to the Netherlands, where they took up residence in Amsterdam. Hans’ younger sister, Ruth, was born on 24 September 1938.
The German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 directly endangered the lives of the Abrahams. In May 1942, their wealthy friends from Hamburg, who had already moved to Switzerland, sent them Haitian passports. Since, technically, they were now foreigners, the Abrahams were deported, first to Westerbork and then to Bergen-Belsen. In 1944, the family was selected for a prisoner exchange, which was conducted in January 1945. The Abrahams were initially taken to Switzerland, while on 31 August 1945 they reached Algeria. They remained in an UNRRA camp in Jeanne d’Arc, Philippeville, until the very end of the War. In 1946, they emigrated to the USA.