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Fritz Heymann was born in Bocholt to a merchant family that settled in Düsseldorf. In 1914, he volunteered for military service, and escaped British captivity in 1917. After the war Heymann interrupted his university studies in Berlin to participate in the suppression of the Spartakus revolt. After completing his studies in literature and law, he worked as an editor at the Düsseldorfer Lokalzeitung, and he wrote for the Vossische Zeitung, where his satirical writings attracted considerable notice. In 1933, he fled to the autonomous Saar, where he started the anti-Nazi periodical Westland (later Grenzland), but he was eventually forced to flee to France and then to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam he wrote two longer works, 'Der Chevalier von Geldern,' and a history of the Marranos, 'Marannen-Chronik,'. After 1940, Heymann went into hiding with his mother but was deported to Theresienstadt and killed in Auschwitz in 1944.

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Portrait of journalist and editor Fritz Heymann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2430.