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Prinsje De Leeuw

Prinsje De Leeuw

May 17th, 1879 - Apr 2nd, 1942

Edith Hofmann

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

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

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

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

Ruth Schlome

Oct 29th, 1900 - Oct 19th, 1942

Maartje De Leeuw

Maartje De Leeuw

Apr 10th, 1863 - Feb 2nd, 1943

Place of death : Auschwitze

Theresa Kristof-Gericke

Theresa Kristof-Gericke

May 23rd, 1913 - Apr 9th, 2008

Gertrud Betti Fink

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

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

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

Ester Weinstock

Jan 1st, 1890 - Jan 1st, 1942

Josef Buczaczer

Josef Buczaczer

Dec 3rd, 1899 - Aug 20th, 1942

Erna Ester Weinstock

Erna Ester Weinstock

Jan 1st, 1887 - Jan 1st, 1942

Ermin Sinanović

Ermin Sinanović

Jan 1st, 1966 - Sept 1st, 1992

Korićanske stijene, nearly Travnik, Bosnia

Jiri Mertens

Jiri Mertens

Jun 9th, 1918 - Jan 2nd, 1944

Jiri and all of the family, Mother, Father & siblings of Blessed Memory

Sidney Henry Black

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

Rayhaan Mahmood

Oct 13th, 1973 - Sept 1st, 2004

Kazmeirz Terka

Kazmeirz Terka

Jun 1st, 1912 - Sept 6th, 1991

Julita Kuagben

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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