From war refugee to liberal thinker, businessman and books man | Stuff.co.nz

John W Schnellenberg, businessman, political candidate and Jewish community identity: b Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1935; m Sonia, 1d, 1s; d Masterton, February 14, 2017, aged 81.

John Schnellenberg was born in Berlin the day before the Nuremberg laws were enacted, depriving German Jews of their rights as citizens. He and his parents narrowly escaped the Holocaust, fleeing Germany in 1938 with the aid of a British diplomat who knew his father. His grandparents were not so fortunate, dying in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

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