Born:
Vienna, Austria
May 19, 1930
In 1938, Han Peter Katz's mother put him on a Kindertransport train bound for Belgium. He was cared for by a Jewish-Hungarian family in Brussels. After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, Katz walked with his adopted father to France where they were able to find refuge in a large farmhouse. They then returned to Brussels to escape the Nazi occupation of France. Seeing the intensifying persecution of Jews, Katz's adopted family went into hiding for two years. After three months in hiding, Katz acquired false papers and, with a German work pass, became a courier for the resistance movement. He never heard from his parents again. In March 1945, Katz went to live with an aunt in Mexico. He became a successful businessman.
Parents:
Leo Katz, d. Auschwitz
Mother née Bachruch, d. concentration camp, 1943