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Persoonlijke gegevens Erich Katz 

• Hij is geboren op 31 juli 1900 in Poznan, Wlkp., Poland.
• Hij is overleden op 30 juli 1973 in Santa Barbara, California, USA, hij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Albert Katz en Grete Schmerl

Gezin van Erich Katz

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Adelheid Soltau.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1926, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)
2. (Niet openbaar)

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Hannah Labus.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1940, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)

Notities over Erich Katz

Katz was born into a prosperous Jewish family[1] in Posen,[2] then part of Prussia, now Poznan, Poland. His father was Albert Katz, a jeweler and watchmaker, the son of a baker.[1] His mother was Grete Katz (nue Schmerl).
Erich Katz (July 31, 1900 u July 30, 1973) was a German-born musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor. He fled the Nazis in 1939, arriving first in England, emigrating to the United States in 1943, where he became a citizen. He was a driving force behind the early music and recorder movements in the United States. Bernard Krainis, a co-founder of New York Pro Musica studied with Katz.
As the situation became more difficult, his wife left him and Katz went into hiding. He was soon arrested, however, and was sent to Dachau concentration camp.[1] At this point, the Nazis were releasing a number of prisoners, provided they left Germany immediately. In 1939, Katz fled Nazi Germany with his daughter, Hanna, and went to England.[1][3][4] Katz's wife kept their son, Klaus.[1][3][note 1]

Katz worked at night as a fireman on the roof of a factory and during the day, he gave concerts in London churches, until they were bombed[1] in the Blitz. In 1940, the British government, fearing a "fifth column", rounded up all "enemy aliens", all German-speaking males over the age of 16 and some females, including many who had fled Nazism. Katz was also interned.[3] In 1940, while still interned, he married his second wife, Hannah Labus, with guards acting as witnesses.[1][5] On release from internment in 1941, Katz began working at Bunce Court School,[2] which had been evacuated to Wem in Shropshire from its original home in Otterden, Kent. Katz remained at Bunce Court until they received permission to emigrate to the United States in 1943.
Arriving via Canada with $3 and the clothes on their backs, his wife took a job as a night nurse, Katz copied music and his daughter painted vases.
Between 1947 and 1952, he corresponded with Hermann Hesse.[5] In 1959, Katz moved to Santa Barbara, California, USA, where he worked at the Santa Barbara City College until his death in 1973

http://libguides.regis.edu/katz
Erich Katz collection: materials were collected and saved by Erich Katz over his entire adult life from 1918 to 1973.

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