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Leonhard Herzenberg

Male 1934 - Aft 1990  (> 57 years)


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  • Name Leonhard Herzenberg 
    Born 21 Jun 1934  Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 1990  Moskva, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4136  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father George Herzenberg,   b. 19 Nov 1896, Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 May 1942, Vjatlag Camp, Kirov, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Mother Line or Linzit Nikolaja Grasde,   b. 1904, Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1955, , , Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 52 years) 
    Married May 1933  Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Ksenia or Xenia Herzenberg,   b. Moskva, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1977  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Per Leo, was in St. Petersburg, Russia as of 1990.

      2. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. I have no key to the sources except HL is Leonardo Herzenberg, HG is Gail Herzenberg, PC is probably Piltene Cemetery records, LA is probably Latvian Archives, FA is probably Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes), and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes); however, he lists the main researchers and their contributions in a lengthy report which I include in full in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg of this database. In regards to this individual:
      Name variations: Leonhard or Leonards Georga.
      FA005 show b. 21 Jun 1934 in Libava, Latvia and d. Moscow.
      LA019 shows b. 1934.
      HL105.
      HL081 shows the following in regards to his mother: "Arrested on 14 Jun 1941 (with son and husband). Exiled in Kazatchinsky region of Krasnojarsk district with son Leonard b. 1934. Her husband died, Linzit liberated in 1955, her son in 1950."
      Last heard of in St. Petersburg in 1990.

      3. Research report dated 6 Jul 1997 from Latvian researcher Aleksandrs Feigmanis, Crestes 2-12, LV-1021, Riga, Latvia, to Harold Hodes of London, England (partial copy of eight pages in my possession). In one section he notes: "The following Herzenbergs I found in recently published list of inhabitants of Liepaja exiled in concentration camps or to exile by Soviets 14 Jun 1941;
      -Hercenbergs George son of Leonhard; born 1896, lived on Gimnaijas street 4, exiled in Vjatlag and died there 8-5-1942.
      -Hercenberg Line daughter of Nikolai, b. 1904; exiled in Kazatchinsky region of Krasnojarsk district with son Leonhard born 1934; son was liberated in 1950, mother in 1955."
      This is for husband, wife, and their son.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
      "An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
      "...Your uncle George had just finished Libau realshule when the war broke out. He also was to come to me in Hamburg, [msp 347] but the war got in the way. In the summer of 1915 the Germans occupied Libau and all those subject to military service were taken to a civilian prison camp in Skalmierzyce, on the former German-Polish border. At that time I was already a soldier with the Prussians. Uncle Dodo in Berlin made the necessary applications and we succeeded in freeing George from the prison camp. He stayed in Berlin for a while to attend a commercial school [handelschule], then returned home to Libau where both brothers continued to lead a good life during the war. In Libau nothing was lacking, as before all foods were swimming in sour cream and butter, to the extent permitted by ritual, since the parents household was always kept kosher. Then George entered father's business and stayed in it. After father died in 1932 he married his old friend, the Latvian Linzit Grazde. He also had a son Leonhard, born on 21 June 1932, almost exactly three months before you. When the Bolsheviks occupied Latvia in September 1939 [msp 348] they left him in the business for only a few months, then it was nationalized. He desperately tried to get a visa to Bolivia, but it was impossible. First, immigration to Bolivia was closed, and second Bolivia did not have diplomatic relations with either Russia or Latvia. There were no Bolivian consulates at which to apply for entry. Then the Germans marched in, and till March 1942 we were without news. Then we got a telegram from them, from Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, and found out that a week before the German assault, on 15 June 1941, the Russians evacuated them to Siberia..."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/