Hans Herzl, only son of Theodor Herzl, who shot himself in a hotel here after the funeral of his sister Paulina, will be buried tomorrow or the next day in the local Jewish cemetery together with his sister, in accordance with his last wish. The police hesitated to permit his burial in the Jewish cemetery since it had not been definitely established whether he had died a Jew.
They yielded, however, when they were shown Hans Herzl’s last will in a letter addressed to the Bordeaux Zionist leader, W. Stolpner, in which Herzl requested that he be buried with his sister in the Jewish cemetery. According to the law a last wish overrules all other considerations. He will be buried without any religious ceremonies.
His letter to Stolpner reads as follows: “I ask that I be buried in my sister’s coffin where there is plenty of space for both. Transfer us later to Vienna. If it is thought undesirable that I and my sister should rest with my father then it is just the right moment to transfer my father’s remains to Palestine. It seems to me that is a simple economic problem. If I die it is my own fault. I can’t complain against anyone. My situation anyway is that of a dead man. When God wants to destory a person he first converts him into a mad man.”
With the death of Hans Herzl and his sister Paulina, the only survivor of Theodor Herzl’s family is Mrs. Trude Neuman, a married daughter living in Vienna.
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