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Name: STRAUSS, Hermann

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Birth Date: 25 Nov 1906 Weiden, Germany

First Date: 1933

Last Date: 1962

Profession: Lawyer

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Hampstead 1955 Liselotte Sophie Haynes b. 25 May 1920 Nuremberg, d. 2 May 1972 Wellington, New Zealand

Book Reference: Jews, Glimpses

General Information:

Jews - In 1937, Herman Strauss, one of the first refugees to come to Kenya, is mentioned in the minutes of the Council as having conducted some of the High Festival services.
Glimpses - 1950s - It was during this decade that a refugee became president of the NHC for the first time; he was Herman Strauss from Germany, by now well established in his original profession as a lawyer.
Glimpses - left Kenya in 1962 prior to independence and went to New Zealand.
He and his wife were naturalised New Zealanders 

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