Henry Foner

Henry Foner (; born 1932) is an Israeli chemist and author of a book about the Kindertransport that saved his life as a child just prior to World War II as the Nazis added territory in Europe.

Background

Foner was born "Heinz Lichtwitz" (nickname "Heini") in 1932 in Germany. In 1937, his mother died, so his grandparents helped raise him. His grandfather was Ernst Lichtwitz, owner of a printing press. Henry lived with his father, Max Lichtwitz and his mother, Ilse Lichtwitz née Badt in Berlin.

Career

Foner served in the British Army in Egypt and in Sudan from 1953 to 1955. He obtained a doctorate in chemistry from University of Leeds.

Personal

Foner and his wife Judith married in 1960.

In 2016, regarding the death of Ernst Tremmel, a guard at Auschwitz, he commented: There can never be a full sense of closure. For me, it does not make sense - you can not recover what was stolen.

Works Foner's book Postcards to a Little Boy chronicles his experience as a Kindertransport child. Postcards to a Little Boy: A Kindertransport Story (2013)