Henry Foner / Heinz Lichtwitz (M / Germany, 1932), Holocaust survivor
Henry Foner / Heinz Lichtwitz (M / Germany, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Germany> <Kristallnacht> <Kindertransport> <England>
- MEMOIRS : Postcards to a Little Boy (2013)
Biography
- wiki.en -- [wiki.it]
A few months after Kristallnacht, Heinz Lichtwitz was sent to the United Kingdom and arrived on February 3, 1939, in Swansea, Wales, to live with his foster parents, Morris and Winifred Foner. His mother had died in 1937, his father would perish at Auschwitz in 1942. Heinz was adopted by the Foners. He than moved to Israel with his wife in 1968.
Book : Postcards to a Little Boy (2013)
- Postcards to a Little Boy: A Kindertransport Story (Jerusalem: Holocaust History Museum Yad Vashem, 2013).
"Henry Foner (Heinz Lichtwitz), who had lost his mother at a young age, was sent from Berlin to Wales and lived there with a Jewish couple, who provided him with a warm, loving home. From the moment they parted, Henry's father sent him colorful illustrated postcards written in German and later on in English. This authentic and moving document presents the postcards and letters that Henry received from his father and other relatives and friends, along with their translation."--Publisher description.