Hansgeorg's Early Life

As I said in my last blog, Hansgeorg was only seven years old when the Nazi's came into power. His parents were divorced, and they sent him to a Jewish Boarding school. The Nazi's began making life hard for the Jews when Hansgeorg was around eight years old. All Jews were forced to wear a yellow star. Jews could not marry non-Jews. Many businesses owned by Jews were confiscated, and Jewish children could not go to the same schools as non-Jewish kids. All this made life harder for Hansgeorg, who grew very close to his younger sister, Eva, as times grew tougher.