Eve Emmy Steinberg Leveque, was born on January 14, 1924 to Walter Steinberg and Freida Korneffel. She was raised with no specific religion in a well-to-do, professional household; her physician father had his practice in their house and often took Eve on his afternoon rounds to neighboring farms. Her family moved to Berlin and …
Read MoreIrv Leopold was born on April 3, 1926 in Portland, Oregon to Sam and Pearl Nudelman Leopold, who arrived in the United States as children from Russia and Germany. His mother was a part of the large Nudelman family that came to the US to start an agrarian community in North Dakota. Many of those …
Read MorePaul Walter Lavender (born Lewandowski) was born on February 10, 1911 in Kassel, Germany. His parents, Jacob and Lina Lewandowski had three other children: Herbert, Irma, and Paul’s fraternal twin brother, Hans. His sister died when he was five years old, and his father died in 1936. Paul’s mother and his brother, Hans, died in …
Read MoreEdith Rosenthal Lavender was born in Wiesbaden, Germany on November 24, 1913 to Emilia and Leon Rosenthal. She had one younger brother, Frank. Edith grew up in a comfortable household, was able to attend public school through graduation. Following graduation, Edith found work as a typist and held that job until 1934 when the business …
Read MoreEdmund Lang was born December 25, 1920, in Perleberg, Germany; he was an only child. His father, who was awarded the Iron Cross after serving in the German army during the First World War, was the owner of the biggest store in their small German town. The Langs were secular Jews, and Ed had no …
Read MoreLore Labby was born on January 19, 1926 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the only child to Paula and George Caro. Her mother died when she was 11, and her father was frequently hiding from Nazi authorities, so Lore lived for several months at a time with family friends. The day after she turned 14, on January …
Read MoreEva Lamfromm Labby was born on June 25, 1929 in Augsburg, Germany to Paul and Marie Lamfromm. Eva had two older sisters, Gertrude Lamfromm Boyle and Hildegard Lamfromm. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and came to Portland, Oregon, where Paul’s older brother Max had immigrated in 1903. Paul purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company, …
Read MoreJakob Kryszek was born in 1918 in the tiny town of Podebbitz, Poland. He was the fourth of six children, three boys and three girls. He moved to Lodz, Poland when he was a young man and began working. When he was 21 years old, the Nazis invaded Poland and his entire family – brothers …
Read MoreRoselle Kleinberger was born on May 8, 1922 to Elsa Rosenstihl Levy and Julius Levy in Dahn, Germany, a small, Catholic town near the French border. Her father was a traveling salesman and aided families with legal issues, and her mother ran their textile store. There was a synagogue for the 15 Jewish families who …
Read MoreSuse Katz was born on August 23, 1926 to Adolf and Betty Grombacher in Ludwigshafen, Germany. She had one brother, Gerd, who was three years older than her. In 1935 her parents obtained affidavits from relatives living in Chicago that allowed the family to travel to the States. They boarded a ship in December of …
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