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Ilse Odenheimer Jacobsen

November 23, 2019

Ilse Jacobsen was born March 4, 1924 to Isidor and Marie Odenheimer in the town of Odenheim in southern Germany, where her father ran a dry goods store. Her family had lived there for many generations. At age ten she was sent away to a Jewish boarding school because the anti-Semitic condition of the school in her small town …

Eva Speigel Aigner

October 23, 2019

Eva Erica Aigner (nee Speigel), one of two daughters, was born in 1937 in Košice, Czechoslovakia. Eva’s mother stayed at home with her and her younger sister while her father ran his own hat-making business until his business license was revoked in 1939 because he was Jewish. Soon the family moved to Budapest, Hungary, joining other …