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Günther Klein

Günther Klein was a friend of Fritz Pfeffer from Berlin.

Person

  • Julius Dagobert Günther Klein
  • Born on: Jan. 19, 1898
  • Born in: Berlijn, Duitsland
  • Died on: May 5, 1984
  • Died in: La Colle sur Loup, Frankrijk

Günther Klein was a friend of Fritz Pfeffer from Berlin. They were both members of the rowing club Undine.[1] Klein moved to Amsterdam in 1921 and started a clothing factory there. On 20 April 1937, he married Eva Schuit. They had two daughters.[2]

Towards the end of 1939, Klein declared himself willing to stand surety for his old friend Fritz Pfeffer as long as he had to stay in the Netherlands pending his departure for South America.[3]

The Klein family wanted to emigrate to the United States. When the American consulate was destroyed on 14 May 1940, all application files of prospective emigrants to the US were burned.[4] Klein also had to collect all the necessary documents again. While reconstructing the waiting list, some administrative employees smuggled forged documents into the procedure in return for payment. Klein was on a list of seventeen applicants who tried to get a higher place on the list this way.[5]

Eva Klein-Schuit died in Auschwitz on 2 November 1942.[6] Günther Klein remarried in 1949[2] and was also granted Dutch citizenship in that year.[7]

Source personal data.[2] Addresses: Berlin; Amsterdam (1921), Raphaëlstraat 6 huis (1939), Beethovenstraat 9a I (October 1945), Albrecht Dürerstraat 25 huis (March 1946), Keizersgracht 27 I (1975).[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Email van dochter Renée Arena – Klein aan Gertjan Broek (Anne Frank Stichting), 21 januari 2017.
  2. a, b, c, d Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.D.G. Klein.
  3. ^ Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Justitie / Rijksvreemdelingendienst, 2.09.45, inv.nr. 1031: Verklaring G. Klein, 20 december 1939.
  4. ^ United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington DC), General Records of the Department of State (RG 59), Decimal File 1940-44, Box 903: Rapportage No. 418 van consul John H. Lord aan het Foreign Department, 11 juni 1940, p. 11.
  5. ^ NARA, Department of State, Box 903: Memorandum No. 2 van consul R.S. Huestis inzake de arrestatie van consulair personeel, 6 februari 1941, p. 7.
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart E. Schuit (1912); Joods Monument: Eva Klein-Schuit.
  7. ^ Verslag der Handelingen van de Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal, 1948 – 1949, p. 100 en 102.