Harry Kahn, Fredy's father, was a cattle trader in Baisingen. He was born there on September 15, 1911. Together with his wife Irene, née Weinberger, he was deported from Haigerloch to the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga in November 1941. His wife died there. He survived the Jungfernhof and Kaiserwald camps near Riga, Stutthof and Buchenwald and was finally liberated in Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945. He returned to Baisingen to his childhood home. There, in 1945, he met his brother Siegfried who had been sent to England by his parents in 1939. Siegfried Kahn served as a soldier in the British Army.