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Herbert
Hane: Abstract | Full
Story | Images
and Artifacts
Herbert Hane is a second generation Holocaust survivor.
Hane’s father and grandfather, aunt, cousins and some
distant relatives were survivors. All endured the pain and fear
of living in Germany under the Nazis. Some more distant relatives
were murdered by them. The Hanes’ story is unusual because
Herbert and his brothers are half-Jewish and their family lived
under Nazi rule until the end of the war.
Hane was born in 1935 in the small town of Lollar, near the
university town of Giessen in the German state of Hesse. At first
e lived with his Jewish grandparents in a three-story house on
Main Street. His father, a German Jew, Louis Hane (1910-1978),
survived the Holocaust because he was married to a Christian
woman.
The same year as Hane’s birth, the Nazis announced new
rules to exclude German Jews from Reich citizenship. These Nuremberg
Laws also prohibited Jews from marrying or having sexual relations
with “persons of German or related blood." However,
a "Jew" was not defined as someone with certain religious
beliefs. The Nazis were racist so they defined Jews as people
who had three or more Jewish grandparents. This then included
those who were not practicing Judaism and Christian converts
with Jewish grandparents.
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