“Georg Iggersheimer was born in Hamburg in 1926 as the son of a Jewish merchant. In April 1933, shortly after the beginning of the Hitler dictatorship, he is enrolled at the Knauerstrasse Boys’ School. Very early on he developed a strong interest in Jewish culture and religion. Because of conflicts with his parents, he spends about a year in a Jewish children’s home in Esslingen in 1937/1938. In October 1938, a few weeks before the Pogroms of November 1938 the Iggersheimer family emigrated via England to Richmond to the USA. There, Georg, like his parents and his sister, took the surname Iggers and initially attended high school. But at the age of fifteen, he already goes to the university there. He is confronted with the discrimination of the black population and, together with black fellow students, forms a student group that opposes racial segregation.”