In November 1935 , the Nuremberg Laws deprived Heinz and his family of their German citizenship . In December 1936 Heinz had had his bar mitzvah in the Orthodox synagogue of Nuremberg where his biological father had been the hazzan . In August 1938 Julius Streicher , editor of Der Stürmer , ordered the large Nuremberg Reform Synagogue torn down . In October 1938 , during Kristallnacht , the Orthodox synagogue where Heinz had had his bar mitzvah was burnt down along with most of Germany 's synagogues . He hid with relatives in Frankfurt
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