WERTHEIMER, Simon S (#173)

Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes:

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Simon S WERTHEIMER, born a full German national in 1930, whose father and uncle had fought and been decorated by Germany in WWI, signs to commemorate, through his Aunt CAROLA (his mother’s sister), exterminated at TREBLINKA, the MILLIONS of lives lost with families obliterated and decimated in the HOLOCAUST and how vital were the contributions of such as SCHINDLER and the silent unsung work of such people as the Briton Major FRANK FOLEY, whose unofficial contacts and initiative in disobeying officialdom saved hundreds, including Simon at age 8, after his mother’s visit to Berlin in the final couple of years before the war began and his father’s imprisonment on trumped up Nazi charges.