Horst Bernard

Biography

Horst Bernard grew up as the son of politically active, antifascist parents and alongside his sister Alice Hornung. Because his father was Jewish and the family opposed National Socialism, they were forced to flee Saarbrücken in 1935 after the Saar region came under Nazi rule. They first went into exile in the French Pyrenees and later settled in Agen, where they survived with the help of local supporters and continued to assist other refugees. As a child in France, Horst experienced not only t…