Didaktische Handreichung
Freddie Knoller
geb. 1921 London, England
“Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 part of a part of a middle class Jewish family. When Germany annexed Austria, my parents sent all their children away from the Nazis. I went to Belgium in December 1938, but when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940, I run away to France. Living in Paris with false I.D. papers as a Frenchman from Alsace-Lorraine. I earned a living in the red-light district of Montmartre taking German Soldiers to Nightclubs, Cabarets and brothels. After a brush with the Gestapo, I joined the French resistance in 1943. Arrested and deported to Auschwitz October 1943. When the Russian troops approached in January 1945 I was part of the Death March where so many prisoners were killed by the SS. Transferred to Dora Camp, where they produced the V1 & V2 rockets and then finally taken to Bergen-Belsen. Liberated by the British troops on the 15th April 1945.”
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