STORY SNAPSHOT Irene Hasenberg was born in Berlin, Germany on Dec. 11, 1930. John, her father (Pappi), served in the German military during World War I (1914-1918).Werner, Irene’s brother, was two years older. In 1937, the Hasenbergs moved from Berlin to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to escape Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and government. John had…
Meet Irene: from Holocaust to Hope and Her Journey to America on a Liberty Ship
