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Prinsje De Leeuw
May 17th, 1879 - Apr 2nd, 1942

Edith Hofmann
Nov 13th, 1927 - Sept 20th, 2018
Edith was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and enjoyed life until the Nazis came. She and her grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousin and friends were sent either to Lodz Ghetto or Theresienstadt. She was the only one to survive. She was in Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kristianstadt, and liberated...

Gedalia & Taube Herzberg
1945
I would like to remember my Grandparents Gedalia & Taube, and my aunt Felicitas who all were murdered in Auschwitz. It’s a sadness that I have always had; thinking about what they went through and never knowing them. My father, Gunther Jacob Herzberg, was the eldest of their four children. They...

Karola Berney
Nov 21st, 1919 - Apr 12th, 2022
Came to England from Offenbach Germany Sept 1939 Sister Elfriede Berney born 19 December 1912

András Leimdörfer
Jul 3rd, 1912 - Feb 27th, 1943
My father obtained his economics degree in ST Gallen, Switzerland as the Jewish laws prevented him from studying in Budapest. He went on to obtain a doctorate but was only able to work in his father's timberyard till that was confiscated. He was called up in the Jewish forced labour unit of the...

Ruth Schlome
Oct 29th, 1900 - Oct 19th, 1942

Maartje De Leeuw
Apr 10th, 1863 - Feb 2nd, 1943
Place of death : Auschwitze

Theresa Kristof-Gericke
May 23rd, 1913 - Apr 9th, 2008

Gertrud Betti Fink
Nov 20th, 1926 - Oct 15th, 1941
Gertrud was my first cousin once removed. She was deported from Vienna to the Łódź Ghetto along with her parents, my great-uncle Theodor and his wife Rosa, on 10th October 1941. She was 14 year old. Neither she nor her parents survived the Holocaust. Theodor perished in the ghetto on 29 April 1942,...

Erich Rendel
Apr 1st, 1923 - Apr 23rd, 1945
Erich was my father's eldest brother and the only member of the immediate family to be captured by the Nazis. His parents and siblings (including my father) were all hidden during the Shoah in the South of France. Erich was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and died in Gross Rosen 24 hours before the...

Ajdla / Eidele Lerman
Jan 1st, 1928 - Jan 1st, 1943
She was the daughter of Yekhiel Majer Lerman and Rywka Kestenberg. Murdered in Treblinka, she was only a child when she was murdered

Ester Weinstock
Jan 1st, 1890 - Jan 1st, 1942

Josef Buczaczer
Dec 3rd, 1899 - Aug 20th, 1942

Erna Ester Weinstock
Jan 1st, 1887 - Jan 1st, 1942

Ermin Sinanović
Jan 1st, 1966 - Sept 1st, 1992
Korićanske stijene, nearly Travnik, Bosnia

Jiri Mertens
Jun 9th, 1918 - Jan 2nd, 1944
Jiri and all of the family, Mother, Father & siblings of Blessed Memory

Sidney Henry Black
1927 - Dec 28th, 2018
In memory of my father, who was not a Holocaust victim, but clandestinely helped hundreds of Jewish people to escape by train and packet steamer, from Paris to the new Israel. Here, in 1948, he was a founder member of Kfar Hanassi and also built and manned a defensive radar station which was...

Rayhaan Mahmood
Oct 13th, 1973 - Sept 1st, 2004

Kazmeirz Terka
Jun 1st, 1912 - Sept 6th, 1991

Julita Kuagben
Aug 15th, 1932 - Sept 23rd, 2022
All my mother ever was is good, kind, and thoughtful. She always put everybody first. She never thought of herself to a fault. So I put her first, and I am glad I was there for her throughout my life, her declining years, and at the end. Mum took care of her younger sisters in the horrors of a Nazi...
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