![]() His father worked for Adler and Oppenheimer, a leading leather manufacturer Peter discusses the family leaving Schwerin for Hamburg around 1933, and then to Luxembourg in 1938 his father getting arrested in Belgium in May 1940 while on a business trip his father being sent to Les Milles concentration camp, and Peter and his mother moving near there to be close his mother going into hiding getting placed in a children’s home in Font-Romeu his father getting deported to Auschwitz where he perished attending Petit Lycée de Toulouse after the war his mother marrying Adolf Fleishmann, a non-Jewish German abstract painter who was interned at Les Milles before escaping in 1940 reconnecting with his classmates via the internet immigrating to the United States in 1952 with a visa obtained through his uncle settling in Kansas, City, MO where his mother and stepfather soon joined him receiving his Ph.D in clinical psychology from Clark University setting up a private practice in New York seeing “survivor syndrome” in patients and himself marrying twice and having two children and writing a memoir. ![]() Peter Aldin was born Peter Abendstern on 29 October 1932 in Schwerin, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. ![]()
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