Hornung, Hugo

Birth Name Hornung, Hugo
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth      

 
Boat 1940   Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Danube Steamship Company transported Maapilim from Wien and Bratislava, down the Danube on four steamers

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David Shpitzer, his wife,and son, Dan, arrived at Bratislava, but the Danube River was frozen, so they waited until September to sail to Tulcea.

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On August, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam, and her sons, Oscar and Herman, left with 500 others, the last to successfully leave, on a train to Bratislava, and boarded a steamship that sailed down the Danube River to Tulcea.

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In September, 1940, Jiri Polacek left on the last transport from Bohemia and Moravia, to Tulcea.

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On September 2, 1940, Emil Gregr organized the illegal transport of ten fellow Jews from Praha via Wien for Palestine.

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In October, 1940, Hugo Hornung sailed from Bratislava to Tulcea.

 
Boat October 7, 1940 אטלנטיק SS Atlantis MV Atlantic Atlantic sailed from Tulcea for Palestine

Place Note

In late 1940, while the Germans were trying to deport the Jews of Europe, rather than exterminating them, and Adolf Eichmann headed The Committee for Sending Jews Overseas, Berthold Storfer, a Jewish businessman, worked under Adolf Eichmann. and organized two groups of transports, one organized on behalf of the Jewish community of Wien, and the second, organized with Betar.
Adolf Eichmann was happy to make trouble for the British by allowing Jews to leave for Palestine, counter to the policy of the British White Paper of 1939, and against the unofficial British policy, which did not even allow Jews into Palestine.
The Committee for Sending Jews Overseas, chartered three ships in Romania:
* Atlantic
* Pacific
* Milos

Place Note

On October 7, 1940, Mordechai and Pesa Rypinsky, and children Hella and Yitzchak, sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

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On October 7, 1940, Emil and Jolan Wellisch sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.
Heinrich Henry Wellisch was able to transfer from Pacific to Atlantic where his parents were located.

Event Note

On October 7, 1940, Hugo Hornung sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

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On October 7, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam and her two sons, Oscar and Herman, sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

 
Boat December 9, 1940   1,584 Maapilim on Atlantic were transported to Mauritius on two Dutch passenger ships and arrived at Port Louis on December 27

Event Note

On December 9, 1940, Hugo Hornung sailed from Haifa to Port Louis, to be interned at Beau Bassin.

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On December 9, 1940, Mordechai and Pesa Rypinsky, and their children, Hella and Yitzchak, sailed from Haifa to Port Louis, to be interned at Beau Bassin.

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On December 9, 1940, Emil and Jolan Wellisch, and their son, Heinrich, sailed from Haifa to Port Louis, to be interned at Beau Bassin.

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On December 9, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam, and her son, Oscar, sailed from Haifa to Port Louis, to be interned at Beau Bassin.

 
Camp December 28, 1940 Beau Bassin, Mauritius 1,584 Maapilim on Atlantic were interned at Beau Bassin by the British

Event Note

1,584 of the passengers aboard Atlantic were deported to Mauritius, where they spent the rest of the war in a detainment camp in Beau Bassin.
They were made up of 800 Jews from Wien, the remnants of the Jewish community of Gdansk and a Maccabi-Hechalutz transport from Czechoslovakia.

Event Note

On December 28, 1940, Hugo Hornung was interned by the British at Beau Bassin.

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On December 28, 1940, Mordechai and Pesa Rypinsky, and their children, Hella and Yitzchak, were interned by the British at Beau Bassin.

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On December 28, 1940, Springmann-Ribak, and daughter, Rachel, were interned by the British at Beau Bassin.

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On December 28, 1940, Emil and Jolan Wellisch, and their son, Heinrich, were interned by the British at Beau Bassin.

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On December 28, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam and her son, Oscar, were interned by the British at Beau Bassin, until August, 1945.

 
Residence   חיפה Haifa, חיפה, ישראל  

Event Note

When Hugo Hornung was released from Beau Bassin, he moved to Palestine, and opened a photography studio in Haifa,

 

Families

Unknown Partner
  Children
  1. Hornung, Gabriel 'Gabi'

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Pedigree

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