Student Tribune
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Warren Heilbronner
Please join us at 3:30 pm on March 8, when Warren Heilbronner will be
the keynote speaker at the meeting of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human
Rights Project.
Warren Heilbronner was a young child living
comfortably with his parents and brother in Stuttgart, Germany until
Kristallnacht, when the Gestapo took his father and grandfather to Dachau. The
only way out of Dachau was to get an exit Visa and the only way to get that was
to have a sponsor in another country. Warren’s uncle in the U.S. became
their sponsor but the family had to overcome many obstacles, including
officials who blackmailed them for money they didn’t have. Then, when
they finally got the necessary papers, they learned their sponsor had died and
they had to bluff the U.S. consulate into believing they still had a living
sponsor. They settled in Perry, New York where his father could find work in a
textile factory. As a family from Germany, moving to a rural area on the eve of
World War II, the Heilbronners continued to experience discrimination.
Warren’s early experience with how a free society can become a
dictatorship had a deep impact on his life and he became a lawyer and settled
in Rochester, N.Y.
Zoom Meeting, March 8 3:30 pm
https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/84930585064?pwd=eDFQY29Zc3JQeF
NMMmhXenhsenRpZz09
Meeting ID: 849 3058 5064
Passcode: 358602
Kress, Patricia
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
02/23/2022