Norbert Wollheim

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Norbert Wollheim (born. 1913 in Berlin; died. 1998 in New York) was a chartered accoutant, tax advisor, previously a director of Central Council of the Jews in Germany and a functionary of Jewish organizations.

Norbert Wollheim grew up in Berlin. He studied Jurisprudence and Political economy, but had to cease his studies in 1933 because of his Jewish origin. He then worked as a welder for a metal export firm until the outbreak of war in 1938. During that same period he played a key role in running the kindertransport which transported 10,000 Jewish children out of Hitler's reach and into safety.

Wollheim engaged himself strongly in the Jewish life and became a managing director of the federation of German/Jewish youth. After Novemberpogromen 1938 he helped to organize the child transportation the Jewish municipality to Great Britain and Sweden. Until 1941 he was responsible to his occupation for the occupation-training schools realm agency of the Jews in Germany and worried as an adviser about the training relating to crafts out displaced Jewish citizen.

By September 1941 Wollheim worked on at a valid a transportation equipment factory as war-important enterprise in Berlin Lichtenberg.