Holocaust Survivor 2

Jessica Chapman

English 101

Mr. Neuburger

16 March 2013

Henry Laurant

Holocaust Survivor

Henry Laurant was born in Kongsburg, Germany. He had one sister that was older than he. Most of what henry recalls of being young are related to the war and anti-Semitism. He cannot recall the names of his friends except for one female friend that referred to herself as Jimmy. Henry remembers running and playing catch at the lake and the rather large apartment he lived in.  He recalls violence and discrimination in his classroom at school and being subjected to anti-Semitic classroom lectures. His father was in the medical field and had his own practice and was a Veteran of the first World War. Henry’s parents weren’t religious. So he pursued his religion through friends and eve attended a synagogue.

They moved to Berlin where Henry attended a private Jewish School. They hid with a friend while his father hid elsewhere purposefully. He went to England without his parents in understanding that it would only be temporary. By nearly the end of the war he had lost all contact with his parents. Henry later came to find that his sister had been arrested and executed while his parents died in Auschwitz. Henry continued his education after the war to try to obtain his high school certificate. Henry went to the US after obtaining his Visa and marrying and American woman.

"Who was to know that this one would not go away."