Franzi Groszmann

Franzi Groszmann (* December 27, 1904, † September 20, 2005 in Manhattan, NY) was a survivor of the Holocaust and the last surviving parent in connection with the Kindertransport.

Life

Franzi Groszmann was one of those parents who could leave their children, between December 1938 and September 1, 1939 entry to the UK, which could thus escape deportation by the Nazis. You could then with her husband Ignaz, a Viennese bank officials, who had been released after the Anschluss, also flee to England yet, but she came with her daughter Lore until after the war's end back together. Ignaz died in 1945 in an internment camp for " enemy aliens " in the Isle of Man of a heart attack. Franzi Groszmann emigrated in 1951 with the daughter Lore in the U.S..

The concept of children's transport is still associated with this action. Franzi Groszmann and her daughter Lore Segal appeared in 2000 in the film Kindertransport - In a strange world with. The film was awarded the Oscar in 2001 as Best Documentary.

In June 1999, a plaque was unveiled to commemorate the children's transport out of the sphere of influence of the Nazis to Britain in the British House of Commons.