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en Interview with Roberto Kahn-Heymann, conducted by Sybille Baumbach, on August 26, 1995 [in excerpts], FZH/WdE 384. https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-263 Institute for the History of the German Jews Online Ressource Roberto Kahn-Heymann was born in Hamburg in 1925; the family first lived in Isestraße, later in Hansastraße. His father was a member of the board of trustees of the New Dammtor Synagogue and Roberto Kahn-Heymann attended the Talmud Torah School. Due to increasing antisemitic hostility, his father emigrated to Spain around 1930, where he had already lived for several years until 1919. Roberto Kahn-Heymann together with his mother followed around 1932. The family first lived in Barcelona, then in Madrid. Roberto Kahn-Heymann traveled to Germany for the first time in 1952 and began giving lectures there for the British Centres (“Die Brücke”). He returned to Spain permanently in 1969 due to his father's illness and lived in Portugal from 1972. He gave this interview during a stay in Hamburg in 1995. His family papers can be found in the Central Archives for Research on the History of the Jews in Germany. Further interviews from the Workshop of Memory  Werkstatt der Erinnerung can be found here.