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Photograph of Norbert Walzer.

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    Caption
    Photograph of Norbert Walzer.
    Date
    1941
    Locale
    Hamburg, [Hansestadt] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Carl H. Rosner

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Carl H. Rosner
    Source Record ID: Collections: IRN 539408
    Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.308

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    Biography
    Norbert Walzer was the first of two children born to Moritz Walzer and his second wife Henny Blaettner in Harburg, Germany on January 19, 1926. In addition to a younger brother, Ludwig Lothar (b. 4.6.1927), Norbert also had an older sister Klara Mayenknecht (b. 4.28.1910) from his father's first marriage. Norbert and Ludwig Lother attended local school in Harburg where their father Moritz Walzer was the proprietor of a successful furniture business. In 1938, however, circumstances dramatically changed for the family when following Kristallnacht new laws were introduced targeting Jews. Moritz, who had been arrested during Kristallnacht, was forced to liquidate his business and his sons were barred from attending school with non-Jews. Thereafter the Walzer brothers attended the Jewish Talmud Torah school in Hamburg, and possibly stayed for a time in the Jewish orphanage. The family remained relatively intact until Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Soon thereafter Moritz, who had been born in Galicia, fled to Belgium. On October 25, 1941 Henny, Norbert, and Ludwig Lothar were deported to the Lodz ghetto. They remained together for little over six months until they were deported to Chelmno where they were killed in May 1942. Moritz, who had remained in Belgium, was deported to Auschwitz via Mechelen in October of that same year. He too perished. Klara's fate is unknown.
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