Fritz Bach (M / Austria, 1934-2011), Holocaust survivor
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Fritz Bach (M / Austria, 1934), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Refugees> <Kindertransport> <England>
Biography
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Fritz Bach was born April5, 1934 in Vienna, Austria, to Leo Bach and Gertrude Rosenfeld. Shortly after the events of Kristallnacht of early November 1938, Bach and his older brother Bertholdt fled Nazi Germany to England with British help in the Kindertransport. After arriving the brothers were put in the care of a British family. The parents reunited with their sons in Bath, England. After the war, in 1949, the family emigrated to Burlington, Vermont.
Fritz had a career in the United States as a transplant physician and immunobiologist, one of the pioneers in the field of transplant immunology