Son of Theodor and Julia Herzl. Hans spent his life in a desperate search to end the suffering of the Jewish people. He felt he failed in life after realizing that the solution to the "Jewish problem" was not conversion to Christianity as he had attempted. A day after the death of his sister Paulina, feeling responsible for not protecting her, he committed suicide. Hans and his sister were reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist leaders, with other family members in 2005. His little sister Margarit's remains were never located. She had been murdered in Theresienstadt by the Nazis.
Hans' nephew by Margarite, Stephan (Norman), the Last Herzl, was the only Herzl to have been a Zionist and to have visited Mandate Palestine. Though having been a British WWII military officer, he was denied reentry to Mandate Palestine by the British afraid of possible Jewish leader returning. Norman, despondent at his inability of helping the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust languishing in the DP camps, committed suicide November 1946. He was buried in Washington D.C. and forgotten. December 2010, Stephan was disinterred and reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist Leaders near Hans.
Hans' nephew by Margarite, Stephan (Norman), the Last Herzl, was the only Herzl to have been a Zionist and to have visited Mandate Palestine. Though having been a British WWII military officer, he was denied reentry to Mandate Palestine by the British afraid of possible Jewish leader returning. Norman, despondent at his inability of helping the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust languishing in the DP camps, committed suicide November 1946. He was buried in Washington D.C. and forgotten. December 2010, Stephan was disinterred and reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist Leaders near Hans.
Son of Theodor and Julia Herzl. Hans spent his life in a desperate search to end the suffering of the Jewish people. He felt he failed in life after realizing that the solution to the "Jewish problem" was not conversion to Christianity as he had attempted. A day after the death of his sister Paulina, feeling responsible for not protecting her, he committed suicide. Hans and his sister were reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist leaders, with other family members in 2005. His little sister Margarit's remains were never located. She had been murdered in Theresienstadt by the Nazis.
Hans' nephew by Margarite, Stephan (Norman), the Last Herzl, was the only Herzl to have been a Zionist and to have visited Mandate Palestine. Though having been a British WWII military officer, he was denied reentry to Mandate Palestine by the British afraid of possible Jewish leader returning. Norman, despondent at his inability of helping the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust languishing in the DP camps, committed suicide November 1946. He was buried in Washington D.C. and forgotten. December 2010, Stephan was disinterred and reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist Leaders near Hans.
Hans' nephew by Margarite, Stephan (Norman), the Last Herzl, was the only Herzl to have been a Zionist and to have visited Mandate Palestine. Though having been a British WWII military officer, he was denied reentry to Mandate Palestine by the British afraid of possible Jewish leader returning. Norman, despondent at his inability of helping the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust languishing in the DP camps, committed suicide November 1946. He was buried in Washington D.C. and forgotten. December 2010, Stephan was disinterred and reburied on Mt. Herzl in the Plot for Zionist Leaders near Hans.
