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Article: Perspective: Last train from Belsen; Paul Oppenheimer from Solihull survived the horrors of Belsen Concentration Camp along with his brother and sister. He now talks about their ordeal and is participating in the UK Holocaust Centre's autumn season. This is their story.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2004
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Byline: Paul Oppenheimer
Our parents, Hans and Rita Oppenheimer, lived in Berlin where I was born in 1928 and my brother Rudi in 1931.
With the advent of Hitler and the Nazis, life became progressively more difficult for all Jewish people living in Germany. Many families wanted to leave but most other countries would not accept them.
Our father, Hans, worked at the Mendelssohn Bank in Berlin and managed to obtain a transfer to the Amsterdam branch in 1936.
Then in May 1940, the Germans invaded Holland and within five days, the Dutch army ...