Walter Klein

Walter Klein fled from the Netherlands to France in May 1942. He got caught at Dole and was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 26 August 1942.
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Siegmund Klein was a lawyer in Cologne. After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he fled to Amsterdam with his wife Helene. His son Walter had emigrated to Amsterdam in the summer of 1938 and worked at Oxyde, a company owned by German friends of the family. Siegmund and his wife also had an older daughter who survived the war.
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Walter Klein wordt op 29 mei 1942 op het station van Dole (Fr) gearresteerd door de Feldgendarmerie. Hij droeg vervalste papieren bij zich en was van plan de Zwitserse grens over te steken. Hij wordt in Frankrijk veroordeeld tot 6 maanden gevangenisstraf. Na uitzitten wordt hij overgebracht naar KZ-Lager Pithiviers. Zijn Duitse strafdossier bevindt zich bij het NIOD in Amsterdam, archief 215, inve…