Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Holocaust Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,1-2 (1998) 67-88
Schlagwort(e):
Oppenheim, Friedrich Carl von
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
Kurzfassung:
Examines the story of Oppenheim (b. 1900), scion of an old and famous banking dynasty and a co-owner of the Oppenheim Bank in Köln. Having a Jewish grandfather and classified as "Mischling 2" by the Nazis, Oppenheim nevertheless helped the two Jewish industrialist families of Lissauer and Griessmann to escape, first from Germany to the Netherlands, and after the German occupation of the latter to South America. He also convinced Meno Lissauer to move German Jewish employees to his subsidiary metal trading firm N.V. Oxyde in Amsterdam, in order to save them from the Nazis in 1939. In early 1943, 1,842 Jewish metal traders were active in the firm; later that year, most of them were arrested and interned in Westerbork - even there, being an Oxyde employee was advantageous for survival. Throughout this period Oppenheim was involved in the firm and in alleviating the plight of the employees. In September 1944 Oppenheim was arrested by the Gestapo and interned in the Landshut prison; he was liberated in May 1945.
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