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Revision as of 13:39, 23 October 2020
Peter Feigl (M / Germany, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : Refugees, Czechia, Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland -- United States
Biography
Peter Ernst Feigl was born on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. The family moved to Prague, Czech Republic, where they stayed for one year before moving to Vienna, Austria in 1937; fleeing to Brussels, Belgium after the 1938 Anschluss. After his father was arrested he moved with his mother and sister to Paris, France but then traveling to Bordeaux because of the intense Paris bombings. They faced a short internment in Gurs due to his German nationality. He lived in hiding, with false ID until he crossed the border into Switzerland on May 20, 1944 and went into an internment camp. Both his parents perished in Auschwitz. In 1946, immigrating to the United States, where he became a successful businessman.
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