Born: Herdecke, Germany, 20 December 1919
Profession in country of origin: Tailor
Arrived in Britain as a refugee from Germany in 1939
Documents
Male enemy alien - Exemption from internment - Refugee Surname: Grunewald
Forename: Heinz
Alias: -
Date and place of birth: 20/12/1919 in Herdecke
Nationality: German
Police Regn. Cert. No.: 712 469
Home Office ref: C 3733 G18072 [later addition]
Address: Kitchener camp, Richborough, Sandwich, Kent
Normal occupation: Tailor
Present occupation:
Name and address of employer: -
Decision of tribunal: Exempted "C"
Date 18.10.1939
Whether exempted from Article 6(A): Yes
Whether desires to be repatriated: No
Hand-written later addition: Release authorised Cat 3
Report of Internment
Police: MPD Divn "S"
Name of Alien: Grunewald, Heinz
Nationality: -
Date of birth: 21
HO Number: 712469
Interned on: -
Handed to: -
Reason for internment: Circular 21.06.1940
Release Authorised Cat 3 G18072
Source: National Archives, Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index, 1939-1947.
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Memories
After the war Heinz Grünewald went to live in New York. Today, a cousin of his, Eve Lee, lives in Dumont, New Jersey; she is almost 90 years old. I have been in contact with her since 1990. Eve visited Herdecke in 2014, because a memorial tablet for the victims of the Holocaust was being erected. In 2016, I visited her in Dumont.
If you look at the following website you can get more information about the Grünewald family:
– Kindly submitted by researcher Willi Creutzenberg
Photographs
-Kindly submitted by researcher Willi Creutzenberg