John Haenosh

Born: Hansa William Lowy
Brno, Czechoslovakia
October 9, 1918

Died:
May 5, 2003

John Haenosh fled Brno as a 21-year-old medical student in the summer of 1939. A sympathetic Italian soldier allowed him to cross into France. He then served in the Czech division of the French Army. Haenosh landed in Normandy in 1944 and was in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia when the war ended. Twenty-seven members of his family died in the Holocaust.

After the war Haenosh returned to Brno to finish his medical studies, then moved to Israel after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948. He served in a field hospital in Massawa, Ethiopia as part of Israeli Army. In 1971 Haenosh and his family moved to Huntsville, Texas. He then moved to Houston after his retirement in 1988 to be closer to his children.

Parents:
Richard Lowy, d. Auschwitz
Mother née Netl, d. Auschwitz

Siblings:
Margot Lowy, d. Auschwitz