Egon Berlin (M / Germany, 1928-1944), Holocaust victim

From left to right: Rudi Oehlbaum, Egon Berlin, and Joseph Dortort at Chateau de La Hille

Egon Berlin (M / Germany, 1928-1944), Holocaust victim

Inge Berlin / Inge Vogelstein (F / Germany 1924), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Children of La Hille> -- <Germany> -- <Refugees, Belgium> <Home Speyer> -- <Refugees, France> <Seyre> <Chateau de La Hille> -- <Partisans> <Perished>

Biography

Egon Berlin was born in 1928 in Koblenz, Germany. Having experienced Nazi persecution of Jews, in 1939 he went as a refugee to Belgium with his older sister, Inge Berlin (Vogelstein) (b.1924). From there in 1940 they escaped to France where they were hosted at Seyre and at the Chateau de La Hille.

From August 1942 the situation became precarious as the Nazi ordered the arrest of all Jewish boys and girls over 15 years of age.

In April 1943 Inge fled over the Pyrenees to safety in Spain with two other young Jewish refugees. She eventually settled in the United States.

Egon remained in France and joined the Resistance with his friends Rudi Oehlbaum and Joseph Dortort. Egon was killed in combat near Roquefixade and was buried in the cemetery in Pamiers. He was 16. Oehlbaum and Dortort survived the war.

Egon was one of the 12 out of ca. 100 Children of La Hille who did not survive, and the only to die in combat.

Sources

• AJPN & USHMM -- confirmed