An Evening with Mark “Leo” Horovitz

Oral History Telling Evening with Mark “Leo” Horovitz
April 25, 2009

Mark “Leo” Horovitz was born in 1928, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He now lives in Albany, California.

Leo and Peter Rothin, then the German Counsel in San Francisco

“I am Jewish. I left Germany via a Kindertransport in March 1939. I lived with an uncle's family in London from March 1939 through August 1939. I was then evacuated to Saint Albans, Herts., UK. where I lived with 5 different families. My parents also escaped to London and I lived with them starting in 1942. In 1944 I was evacuated again - to South Wales… I do not intend April 25th to be a 'lecture', but an interactive conversation—concerning the value and purpose of German/Jewish dialog in 2009. I will give a very brief outline of my life history, answer any questions about that and focus on what I/we can accomplish together now!”

Please come and join us for this special event at the Gerlind Institute.

You can read a memorial to Leo in the Berkeleyside: Mark “Leo” Horovitz, a Holocaust survivor involved in Jewish-German reconciliation work