Eduard Klein

Eduard Klein was the older son of Richard and Maria Klein. The Kleins were a family of hidden Jews living in Berlin. His infant brother, Paul, was diagnosed by their pediatrician, Martin Dambach, with Tay-Sachs disease, a condition more common in Jews than in others.

When Esther Stutzman, Dambach's receptionist and another hidden Jew, attempted to alter the Klein geneological records to account for a possible Jewish ancestor, she neglected to remove the older record from Eduard's file which did not show such a possible ancestry. Dambach notified the authorities about the discrepency.