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Marie Engelova
Mar 15th, 1874 - Oct 22nd, 1942
Goldine De Leeuw
Apr 9th, 1885 - May 21st, 1943
Died in Sobibór. Sister of Simon De Leeuw.
Käthe Schwab (née Stern)
Nov 17th, 1896 - Oct 10th, 1994
Käthe was born to Recha and Hermann Stern in 1896 in the small town Arnstadt that can be found in the German federal state of Thuringia. There she spent her youth, eventually becoming the older sister of Arthur Stern who was born in 1901. In 1917, she married the merchant and company owner Ernst...
Recha Stern
Aug 11th, 1871 - Nov 15th, 1950
Recha Stern (née Löwenthal) was born in 1871 in Möhringen, a suburb of Stuttgart in southern Germany, to Salomon and Henriette Löwenthal. In 1896, she married the merchant Hermann Stern with whom she had two children, Käthe and Arthur. Upon becoming Hermann's wife, Recha settled in the small town...
Ruth Hochhauser Eisenfeld
Jan 8th, 1932 - Sep 26th, 2024
Survivor of Nazi persecution in Germany and Belgium Kindertransport child • Hidden child • Witness to Kristallnacht Ruth Hochhauser Eisenfeld was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1932 to Polish-Jewish parents, Eli (Ernst) and Miriam. Raised in an Orthodox household, Ruth’s early...
Sandor Brummer
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My grandfather Sandor was born in the Austrian-Hungarian. Nearest sizeable town was Berehove Raion, now in Western Ukraine.It has variously been in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USSR and Ukraine control. His native language was Hungarian and they spoke Yiddush at home. He was married to my grandmother...
Srul "Israel" Buchendler
1886 - 1943
Srul was married to Miriam and lived in Pultusk, Poland. They had three children, Samuel, Sheina and Meyer, who all survived the Holocaust.
Miriam Buchendler
1888 - 1943
Miriam was married to Srul and lived in Pultusk, Poland. Miriam had three children, Samuel, Sheina and Meyer, who all survived the Holocaust. Miriam was murdered in Warsaw in 1943.
HENRY ROBERT SUTTON, MR
Sep 25th, 1924 - Jun 17th, 2006
HENRY (HEINZ ROBERT SONTHEIMER) WAS BORN ON THE 25TH SEPTEMBER 1924 IN STUTTGART ALONG WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER PAUL FELIX TO THEIR FATHER FELIX, A FIRST DIRECTOR OF DEUTSCHE BANK AND HIS MOTHER, ROOSJIE, A WELL KNOWN AND RENOWNED OPERA SINGER . THE TWINS HAD AN ELDER BROTHER FREDDIE. AT THE AGE OF 11...
Gert Jacobowitz
Nov 18th, 1924 - Jul 5th, 2007
This Memorial page was created to link with a candle holder made as part of the HMDT 80 candles for 80 Years project to enable people to find out more about Edith and Gert's experiences. https://www.hmd.org.uk/80-candles-for-80-years/ A film about another child who lived on the farm, Walter...
Edith Jacobowitz-Bown
Sep 16th, 1924 - Jan 7th, 2021
Introduction: In Spring 1939, a seventy five acre farm at Ballyrolly outside Millisle, Co Down, Northern Ireland was leased by the Jewish refugee Committee in Belfast. Children, teenagers and adults previously living in a cramped hostel in Belfast were transferred there. Most of the children,...
Elizabeth Jas-Querido
Nov 11th, 1898 - Jun 11th, 1943
Died at Sobibor, Wlodawa County,Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Sister of Estella Kohnhorst-Querido and Esther Winkel-Querido. Daughter of David Querido and Branca Neeter-Querido.
Zigi Shipper, BEM
Jan 18th, 1930 - Jan 18th, 2023
Zigi (Zygmunt) Shipper BEM was born in 1930 in Łódź, Poland. He grew up with his father and grandparents after his parents divorced when he was very young. He had a happy and comfortable childhood, attending a Jewish school and spending time with his cousins and friends. In 1939, Zigi’s father...
Helene Melanie Lebel
Sep 15th, 1911 - 1940
Helene and her younger sister were born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. Her father passed away when she was five years old in World War One. Helene enjoyed swimming and after secondary school went onto law school. She later had to give up both her studies and her job as a...
Moshe Nurtman
Dec 26th, 1924 - Dec 17th, 2020
The Times Newspaper Although Moishe Nurtman was one of 732 child Holocaust survivors given the chance of a new life in England in 1945, he was actually too old to qualify for the scheme by three years, having been born in 1924. Because of his diminutive stature and undernourishment the committee...
Elias Victor Barentz
Jan 26th, 1920 - Apr 30th, 1943
Andrea Slier
Feb 28th, 1909 - Nov 7th, 1942
Anna De Leeuw
Nov 30th, 1889 - Dec 16th, 1943
Jacob Barentz
Nov 5th, 1889 - Nov 5th, 1942
Marcus Barentz
Apr 2nd, 1884 - Sep 10th, 1942
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