Franz Werner Krebs papers

Franz Werner Krebs papers 

Franz Werner Krebs (1927- ) was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) to lawyer and judge Dr. Richard Krebs and Annelise Krebs (nee Kosterlitz), but spent most of his child in Ratibor (now Racibórz, Poland). In November 1938, Richard Krebs was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and released the following month. In December 1938 Franz Krebs joined the first Kindertransport to England, where he lived at the Dovercourt Bay Camp, Otterden (Kent), and Wemm (Shropshire), and attended the New Herrlingen School. His parents and younger brother, Wolfgang, joined him in England in June 1939, using visas given to them by elderly friends, and settling in York. After the war, the Krebs returned to Germany, where Richard and Franz initially worked for the civil censorship division of the American occupation forces in Offenbach. Franz immigrated to the United States in 1956 and settled in the Washington, DC area. 

Franz Werner Krebs papers