Erna was born in Poland in 1912, but moved to Vienna with her family when she was a year old. She was the eldest of three daughters. Her parents were Orthodox Jews, and her father owned a kosher restaurant. Erna graduated from medical school in Vienna, and married Alfred, a literature student, in 1935. When …
Read MoreRose Hassin was born on August 26, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. She had an older sister, Bobby, and a twin sister named Amy. Her father was in the furniture business and ran his own factory. The family was comfortable, and spent summers vacationing abroad. This all changed when Hitler rose to power. Rose and her siblings …
Read MoreCharlotte (Lotte) Geller Brown was born on April 2, 1924 in the small town of Lackenbach, Austria. Following the German occupation of Austria, all Jews were required to move into the cities and she went with her family to Vienna. Very soon, she was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport program. She lived in …
Read MoreHans’ father, Wolfe Ruben Biglajzer, originally came from Poland. Wolfe was drafted into the Russian Army during the First World War. He was a prisoner of war in Germany where he met his wife Julia Nathan, who was from Bonnheim. They were married in 1918. Wolfe was a tailor and furrier, as was his father …
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 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 MoreEve 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 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 …
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