By Alicia Heskamp. Their timely action saved their lives: The Jewish Hopfeld family, consisting of Friedrich, Friedel, and their daughter Helga Hopfeld, is the only family from Nordhorn to have survived the Holocaust together. Ten years before the Nazis seized power, they stood up against the steadily increasing discrimination against Jews. In 1937, they fled. Almost 90 years later, a street in the Deegfeld development area is being named after …
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By Alicia Heskamp. Their timely action saved their lives: The Jewish Hopfeld family, consisting of Friedrich, Friedel, and their daughter Helga Hopfeld, is the only family from Nordhorn to have survived the Holocaust together. Ten years before the Nazis seized power, they stood up against the steadily increasing discrimination against Jews. In 1937, they fled. Almost 90 years later, a street in the Deegfeld development area is being named after …