Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
– novel by Hans Fallada, published in 1936
Frank Simon Herrmann
1866-1942, American painter of German origin, lived in Munich from 1883, returned to the United States in 1919.
Franziska Herzfeld
1891-1939, German mathematician. She worked as a teacher at the École Normale in Nancy in French exile
Georg Heintz
1928-1987, German exile researcher, editor and publisher in Worms
Hagana
Jewish, paramilitary underground organisation, predecessor of the Israeli army.
Haller, Frieda
c. 1884 – c. 1953. Swiss English teacher and translator, shared a flat for a short time with Georg Kaiser in Zürich from 1944/45.
Hamburger, Rudolf (1903 – 1980),
The architect Rudolf Hamburger (1903-1980) lived between 1930 and 1936 in Shanghai.
Havemann, Robert
1910-1982, German chemist and anti-state campaigner. As a communist youth he was opposed to Nazism; from 1937-1945 he worked on poisonous gas projects at the German Army Weapons Agency (Heereswaffenamt); from 1950 political and scientific career in the GDR, expelled from the ruling SED party in 1964/65 for criticising the regime, and from 1976 placed under house arrest and subject to surveillance by the East German secret police (Staatssicherheit)
Hayek-Arendt, Katja
1900 – 1979, pseudonym for Käthe Arendt, German philologist, translator, wife of Erich Arendt
Heiden, Konrad
1901-1966, publisher, fled to the Saar region in 1933 then into exile in France and the USA; he wrote one of the first biographies of Hitler as well as several books about Nazism
Heine, Heinrich
1797-1856, German poet and writer, emigrated to Paris in 1831 due to political hostility
Hemingway, Ernest
1899-1961, US writer and journalist, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
Hepworth, Bearbara
(1903-1975) was a significant British sculptor and the wife of Ben Nicholson.
Hermann-Neiße, Max
1886-1941, German author or prose and poems, one of Berlin’s most popular literary figures in the 1920s, emigrated with some diversions to London in 1933, where he died almost totally forgotten
Herrmann-Neiße, Max
1886-1941, deutscher Schriftsteller, der 1933 nach London emigrierte, wo er mit Lion Feuchtwanger, Rudolf Olden und Ernst Toller den Exil-P.E.N. gründete. 1936 erschien bei Oprecht sein Gedichtband Um uns die Fremde.
Herz, Peter
Austrian author, librettist and features writer, emigrated to London via Zurich and Paris in 1938; after a period of internment on the Isle of Man, he served as the director and compère of the Blue Danube Club cabaret until 1954.
Herzfelde, Wieland
1896–1988, worked from 1917 to 1947 as a publisher, founded among other things the publishing house Malik Verlag with his brother John Heartfield. He spent his exile years in Czechoslovakia and the USA. From 1949, he was professor for literature at Leipzig University.
Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962, also known under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair, German writer, Swiss citizen from 1924, pacifist, supported many emigrants.
HICEM
Formed in 1927 out of three older associations (merger of HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society), ICA (Jewish Colonization Association) und Emigdirekt)
Hilpert, Heinz
1890-1967, German actor, theatre director and producer; 1938-1945 director of Wiener Theater in Josefstadt; after the war, his appointments included that of artistic director at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen and Schauspiel Frankfurt.
Hindemith, Gertrud
née. Rottenberg, 1900-1967. Actor and singer. Manager and executor of her husband Paul Hindemith’s estate.
Hitchcock, Alfred
1899 – 1980, was a British film director and producer of world renown. Many of his thrillers are still regarded as classics in this genre today.
Horch, Franz J.
1901 – 1951, Austrian playwright who acted as a literary agent in New York during his American exile
Hotel Bedford
Hotel in New York, 118 East 40th Street, where several German emigrants stayed from the middle of the 1930s, among them Thomas, Klaus and Erika Mann and Martin Gumpert. The hotel manager Anton Nagel was also an emigrant.
Huang, Henry
Henry Huang studied during the 1930s in London and at Harvard University in Boston under Walter Gropius before returning to Shanghai in 1942.
Hubertman, Bronislaw
1882-1947, polnischer Violinvirtuose. Trat bereits als Kind öffentlich auf, später folgten Tourneen durch ganz Europa. Hubermann war stark politisch engagiert, unter anderem für ein vereinigtes Europa. Auch die Gründung des Palestine Orchestra, aus dem später das Israel Philharmonic Orchestra wurde, geht auf sein Engagement zurück.
Huebsch, Benjamin
1876-1964, American publisher, son of a Jewish emigrant from Hungary. His publishing company Viking Press published numerous works by German authors such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Zweig and Soma Morgenstern.
Humm-Sernau, Lola
1895-1990, worked from 1926 to 1941 as Lion Feuchtwanger’s secretary
Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963, English writer, lived until 1937 in Sanary-sur-Mer and was in contact with German emigrants there
Ödön von Horvath
1901-1938, Austro-Hungarian author who wrote in the German language, died in exile in Paris.
