Schwerin, Kurt, 1902-1995

Kurt Schwerin

Kurt Schwerin was born April 17, 1902 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia - then Germany but now part of Poland. He attended Jewish primary and secondary schools and studied at the University of Breslau from 1930 until forced to cease attending by the Nazi government in 1934. He taught at a Jewish secondary school from 1934 to 1938, marrying Herta Bernstein in 1937. In 1938, Schwerin and his wife came to the United States on travelers' visas; he managed to stay in the U.S. permanently, though she was deported back to Germany, eventually dying in the Lublin concentration camp.

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