Emil Dortort (M / Germany, 1924-194?), Holocaust victim

Emil Dortort (M / Germany, 1924-194?), Holocaust victim

Martha Dortort (F / Germany, 1922-1942), Holocaust victim >

Joseph Dortort (M / Germany, 1928), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Children of La Hille> -- <Germany> -- <Refugees, Belgium> <Home Speyer> -- <Refugees, France> <Seyre> <Chateau de La Hille> <Hidden Children, France> -- <Deportees> <Majdanek> <perished>

Biography

Martha (1922), Emil (1924), and Joseph (1928) were the children of Julius Dortort (1891-1945). They lived in Bottrop, Germany. In 1939 Emil and Joseph went to Belgium on a Kindertransport. They were hosted as refugees at Home Speyer. When Germany invaded Belgium in 1940, they fled to France. They spent the winter in Seyre before finally settling at Chateau de La Hille in the Pyrenees.

From August 1942 the situation became precarious as the Nazi ordered the arrest of all Jewish boys and girls over 15 years of age. Emil was arrested by the French Police in March 1943 and deported; he perished in Majdanek. He was one of the 12 out of 100 Children of La Hille who did not survive.

Father Julius and sister Martha, who had remained in Germany, were deported in 1942. Julius perished in Dachau in January 1945, Martha in Stutthof. Joseph was the only member of the family to survive in hiding in France.

Sources

• AJPN -- confirmed