Dr. Norbert Katz born in Germany on August 14, 1908. He was educated at the University of Nuremberg and was an assistant at the Institute of Journalism in Nuremberg. Dr. Katz was imprisoned by the Nazis at Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps for refusing to resign his faculty position. In 1939, when World War II started, Katz moved to England, where he was headmaster at a Jewish boarding school. Dr. Norbert Katz immigrated to the United States in 1941. He passed away on February 2, 1995.
Norbert Katz
Nationality: German
Location: Berlin • Birmingham • Buchenwald Concentration Camp • Dachau Concentration Camp • England • Frankfurt • Germany • Isle of Man • London • Missouri • New York • Nuremberg • St. Louis • United States of America
Experience During Holocaust: Lived in Multiple Concentration Camps • Sent to Concentration Camp • Was a Forced Laborer
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“Don't forget [the Holocaust]. Don't forget it as a possibility. History repeats it.”
- Norbert Katz