Koch, Eric
Birth Name | Koch, Eric |
Gender | male |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Birth | 1919 | Frankfurt-am-Main, regierungsbezirk Darmstadt, Hessen Deutschland |
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Emigration | 1935 | Erich Koch, age 15 years, left Germany to go to school in Kent |
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Education | Erich Koch studied law |
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Transport | 1940 | The British arrested and transported all German Enemy Aliens |
Place Note
In 1940, Britain interned about 1,000 children from the Kindertransport, as Enemy Aliens, on the Isle of Man.
On May 12, 1940, Eric Koch was arrested as an Enemy Alien by the British in Cambridge, assembled in front of King's College Chapel, and sent by bus to Bury St. Edmunds. Eric Koch cites "Emil Fackenheim, who had been in a German concentration camp from 1938 to 1030, wasimpressed by the good manners displayed by the policemen who had come to arrest him in Aberdeen, where he was studying."
Walter Nussbaum cites: "The first time I was addressed as Mister was in May 1940, when the British Secret Service called at the hostel for Jewish refugee children in London and asked to see me." Kaspar Naegele was interned in a boarding house in Douglas, on the Isle of Man.
Dr. Reichenfeld escpaed the Nazis in Wien, and considered himseld fortunate to find a job as a caretaker in Edinburgh. Hans Reichnfeld was interned,with his father, as an Enemy Alien, on the Isle of Man. Oscar Cahén was interned by the British as an Enemy Alien. |
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Boat | July 3, 1940 | Ettrick | Ettrick sailed from Liverpool |
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Camp | 1940 | Camp N, at the Quebec Central Railroad property at Newington, outisde Sherbrooke | Camp N, at the Quebec Central Railroad property at Newington, Sherbrooke |
Event Note
During World War II, approximately 38,000 Germans were detained in 25 permanent internment camps and dozens of smaller work camps throughout Canada, under the Department of National Defence (DND)'s Directorate of Internment Operations. |
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Web Links
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1 | Web Search | Eric Koch Biography |
Source References
Pedigree
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