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

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

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

• KEYWORDS : <Children of La Hille> <Home Speyer> <Seyre> <Chateau de La Hille> <Majdanek>

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

Sources

• AJPN -- confirmed