A Holocaust Mystery: Christian Helmut Hepner (Hafner)
It’s amazing when I dive into my Holocaust Research, that I find details that don’t exactly make sense.
Christian Helmut Hepner (Hafner), I felt was someone that I’ve run into that missing piece with. With him, it’s interesting to read about him, thought there’s not much, I still want to find out everything I can about him.
He was born on July 22, 1924 in Germany. I’m not sure how many siblings he had, but he was considered “Half Jew,” which makes sense. He was a happy boy, who really loved to be outside.
The thing that strikes me about him, is that his death DOES NOT MAKE ONE BIT OF SENSE. There are documents about him. He was told he had to serve in the army, but since he was “Half-Jew” he had to serve in the “TOT” organization, which I had never heard of .
If you read what it says, it says : He was shot, which I got, but “kneeling before a picture of Goring”. WHAT? How is that possible? Why would they have a picture of Goring there? That doesn’t make sense at all? I knew he was shot, but why that way? Was he staged that way? Or was he forced? We will never know? It’s hard to place what exactlty went down and we don’t know if anyone else was shot? But apparently, his death was really weird, and he apprently was at the wrong place at the wrong time it seems?
In my search to find what “TOT” was or how exactly he ended up where he was, I have to dive into the archvies of Germany. He never moved from Germany, so he lived and died there.
But, if his mother died at Auschwitz, from one document said, then why wasn’t he deported? He should have been right? It didn’t seem that way. He seemed to “Safe” but not really? He had to serve in the military, but it’s weird to understand how, or why?
The thing is really is interesting, is his death. I know he was shot, but the way he died…doesn’t make sense. As it says in the documents: The death was never cleared…well obiviously not? Will anyone know? It’s hard to say? It’s hard to tell. The thing I can do now, is try to contact this Jan Hepner and see what he knows? If he’s still alive? Maybe? I don’t know? I hope to try to find out more about this boy. I’ve “seen” him before, and I really want to know in what circumstances he was killed? For what reason? I’m not sure? But that’s a mystery I intend to find out.
