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About Felix Hermann
Birth, HBMa 2656 file 203
http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/reprodukce/?zaznamId=3455&reproId...
Yad Vashem entry
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=3184...
Felix was born on 8 December 1911 which can be verified at the Praha-Vinohrady register 2656, file 203
https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000141956720813 (See documents)
This date confirms the date of birth listed in Serge Klarsfeld 'Memorial to the Jews Departed from France 1942 - 44.
Name search
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_advance_search.php
French deportations list
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=20564
(Document request form online)
So although Felix was a victim of the holocaust in his early 30s, his life has largely not been recorded in detail.
According to Kafka scholar \ author Dr Hans Koch, Felix was married with two children, possibly twins. He was a merchant in Brussels and may have died on a ship attempting to leave Belgium in 1940.
Felix is also listed as having lived in Perpignon - see Jewish Holocaust Memorials and Jewish Residents of Germany 1939-1945
My recent (November 2021) research reveals the following:
It is now known, courtesy of documents available at the Police Archives in Brussels (Archives Générales du Royaime et Archives de L’État dans les Provinces), that Felix came to Brussels from Prague in the early 1930s funded by his parents whilst he sought work. He applied for permanent residence in Brussels and was intending to learn the language. It appears that from time to time he worked as an employee of domestic electrical suppliers such as Electrolux.
At that time he commenced a relationship with Scheindel Juner, a Polish student of bacteriology at the Brussels Free University. She was funded by her parents, Mr and Mrs Jacob Juner who were living in Stanislawów, Poland.
Felix and Scheindel were married on 29th August 1936 but were forced to leave Brussels in May 1940 at the time of the German invasion. They tried to make a new home in France, but it seems that Felix was captured and placed in a Concentration camp.
A police report of 1944, quotes a tenant from the former Hermann residence, 6, Rue de Prince Royale, Brussels, who had received a letter in December 1940 from Scheindel. She said her husband had died in the camp at St-Cyprien in July 1940 (the official holocaust records say Le Vernet) and that she had given birth to twins who also died. Hans-Kerd Koch has additional information which confirms the date of death of Felix at the Hôpital du Haut-Vernet, Perpignan which is not far from the Le Vernet camp in St Cyprien.
In 1940 it is known that the Le Vernet camp became a repressive camp for interning all foreigners considered suspect or dangerous to the public order. Conditions were said to be terrible. At the time, it was known as ‘The French Dachau’.
The tenant indicates that Scheindel was then living at Maison Rouge, Villemur-sur Tarn, Haute-Garonne, but had written again in April 1941 to say her new address was at the house of a widow, Madame Bonnet, Avenue Montauban, Villemur-sur Tarn, Haute-Garonne.
It is not known the circumstances in which the Hermann children died nor whether Scheindel survived the holocaust period. No further communications were received from her.
Michael Hermann
NB Documents attached from Brussels Archives must not be published without permission.
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Felix Hermann's Timeline
| 1911 |
December 8, 1911
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Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
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| 1940 |
August 17, 1940
Age 28
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Le Vernet Camp, France
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