Brecher, Henry H.

Henry Heinz Brecher was born Heinz Brecher on August 29, 1932, in Graz. After the Anschluss, his parents sent him to live with relatives in Zagreb, where he stayed for three years. After these relatives emigrated, he subsequently stayed with several other families before arrangements were made to have him taken to Split, which was in the Italian-occupied part of Yugoslavia. Heinz lived in Split until the Italian capitulation and subsequent German occupation of this part of Yugoslavia. After a brief detention in Split in spring 1944, they made their way a displaced persons camp in Bari, Italy. They immigrated to the United States in August 1944.

From the guide to the Henry Heinz Brecher Collection, circa 2003, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives)