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Max Amichai Heppner plays outside in the countryside of the Netherlands [while his family was in hiding].

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    Max Amichai Heppner plays outside in the countryside of the Netherlands [while his family was in hiding].
    Max Amichai Heppner plays outside in the countryside of the Netherlands [while his family was in hiding].

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    Max Amichai Heppner plays outside in the countryside of the Netherlands [while his family was in hiding].
    Date
    1942 - 1944 September 30
    Locale
    The Netherlands
    Variant Locale
    Holland
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Amichai (Max) Heppner

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Amichai (Max) Heppner
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1991.226

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    Biography
    Max Amichai Heppner was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1933, to Albert and Irene Kramer Heppner. His parents, both born in 1904, had fled Berlin, Germany, earlier that year after the January assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. His father Albert was an art dealer and art historian. In 1942, after house raids and the confiscation of his father's art business, Amichai's family fled to the Dutch countryside. An attempt to reach the unoccupied zone in France failed when they learned that the people they were paying 5000 guildres to smuggle them into France intended to murder them. The Dutch underground later placed the family with another Jewish family on a Dutch farm owned by harry and Dina Janssen. The farmer, a Gentile, built special hiding places for them and gave them a radio. They lived mostly in chicken houses until liberation in September 1944. Max's father died of liver failure in 1945. Max and his mother immigrated to the United States on November 4, 1946. They arrived in Hoboken, N.J., and stayed with family in Ohio. Max was later drafted into the United States Army. Irene, age 89, died in 1997.
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