Marianne Rossen was born on February 18, 1921 in Berlin, Germany. Her father owned and operated a bank, allowing her family to live a very comfortable life in the city. Marianne attended public school until 1937 when all Jewish students were expelled. She was 16. Soon thereafter, he fathers bank was seized by the Nazis, …
Read MoreArthur Robert (Ro-behr) was born September 6, 1920 in La Broque, France, a small village near Alsace, to Marguerite and Arthur Robert. He had two sisters: Alice (Alis) and Genevieve (Genviev). When Arthur was still in high school, his father founded the Volontaires de la Mort, or the Volunteers of Death, a French Resistance organization …
Read MoreEva Simons Rickles was born on November 13, 1927 in Berlin, Germany to Dolf and Marie Elizabeth Simons. Her mother was an economist for the German government after the First World War and her father was a dermatologist in private practice. The family escaped from Berlin as the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful. They …
Read MoreHelga Bernstein Relation was born in Berlin, Germany, on February 24, 1924. She attended a public primary school and then a private Catholic school for lyceum (high school). Helga’s father owned and operated a fabric wholesale business in Berlin. He worked primarily with silks, satins and velvets. Her mother was a respected seamstress in their community. Although …
Read MoreElla Ostroff was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary on June 4, 1932 to Henry and Helen Weiss. She had three older sisters (Magda, Lily, and Olga) and one brother. Ella lost both her parents and her brother in the Holocaust; her father was deported early on to a labor camp where he died, and her mother and …
Read MoreCharlotte Mitchell was born Lotte Wieland in Gleiwitz, Oberschlesien (Germany) on July 20, 1916. She had three sisters: Ruth, Lora and Hilde. Charlotte attended school through the eighth grade, after which time Nazi pogroms made it impossible for her to continue. Her sisters were fortunate enough to emigrate to Palestine before the pogroms were enacted. …
Read MoreJohn H. Miller was born on February 18, 1907 in Neunkirchen, Germany the eldest of three children of Simon and Flora (Kahn) Mueller. His brother Walter (born in 1908) and Greta (Salomon born in 1910) followed. Their parents Simon and Flora ran a men’s clothing store in Düsseldorf. John was educated as far as high school. …
Read MoreAnne Bloch Miller was born in 1912 in Cologne, Germany. She had a sister, Hilda, and a brother, Helmut. Her mother died when she was seven years old, and her father remarried three years later. Anne married her husband, Hans Mueller, on February 22, 1935 and they lived in Essen, just outside of Cologne, where …
Read MoreLotte Goldschmidt Magnus was born on March 17, 1920 in Frankfurt, Germany to Lily and Adolf Goldschmidt. She had an older brother, Hans. In 1926 she began attending a liberal Jewish school in Frankfurt and was a student there until she had the opportunity to emigrate to the United States via the Kindertransport in 1934. She was …
Read MoreShlomo Libeskind was born in Poland in 1937 and spent the war years in numerous locations around Warsaw and with various families under difficult conditions. In 1947 he emigrated to Israel where he lived in several kibbutzim, learned Hebrew, gained matriculation and served in the Israeli Army during the Sinai campaign. After earning his doctorate …
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