Herbert ancestry extends to the large Sinasohn family of Schönlanke, Posen. Born 9 March 1916 in Berlin, youngest son of Samuel and Selma Haasz, née Sinasohn, brother of Regina Schallamach, née Haasz, Ivan Johan (Hans), and Hilde (Muschi) Friedländer, née Haasz. As young teacher in a Jewish orphanage in Frankfurt am Main, in 1939 he began to secretly evacuate the orphanage’s girls and boys to Hach…