Driver Killed in San Angelo was a Holocaust Survivor

 

SAN ANGELO, TX – The driver killed in the fiery crash outside of San Angelo was a holocaust survivor, confirms multiple reports.

As previously reported, on Feb. 3, 2023, troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety worked a fatal crash on US 87 near Grape Creek road. For more see: BREAKING: DPS Confirms Double Fatality in Fiery US-87 N. Rollover Crash

Later that day DPS confirmed that two people died in the crash. The deceased were a couple Monica and Robert Kahn, of Colorado. Both of the passengers in the car were elderly. The woman was 84 while the man was 91.

The husband, Robert Kahn, was a radiologist from Greely, CO but was most known for being a Holocaust survivor. In a book, written by Kahn, he details his escape from Nazi Germany. 

Roentgen and Me

Roentgen and Me

"Bob Kahn fled Nazi Germany with his family in the late 1930s when he was 7, and they relocated as refugees in New York. Kahn’s father, Herman, who fought for Germany in World War I, was taken from the family home by Nazis one night in November 1938. It was a night Nazis referred to as Kristallnacht, or night of the broken glass, for the shattered windows in streets during the violent, anti-Jewish demonstrations in Germany, Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum," reported the local paper.

To read Kahn's obituary click here.

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