Eva Abraham-Podietz (born Eva Rosenbaum) was born on May 22, 1927 to Ernst and Else (Jacobus) Rosenbaum in Hamburg, Germany. Her father worked in the import-export business. She had one brother, Heinz-Peter Rosenbuam born in 1924. During the summer of 1938 Eva's father moved to England and made preparations for the family to join him. Heinz-Peter followed him in September 1938, after being sponsored ...

Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) was born on March 16, 1926, in Deutsch Krone, Germany (Walcz, Poland), to Julius and Hertha Cohn Dobriner. Max had two older brothers, Robert, born in. 1921, and Herbert, born in 1924. They were an observant Jewish family. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. By July, the Nazi dictatorship was firmly in place and restrictive Jewish policies ...

Wigdor Hersch Eisenthal ('Hermann'; 1882-1948) was originally from Kossow, Austrian Hungarian Empire (now Ukraine). He was brought up in the Jewish Orthodox faith. Hermann served in the First World War and received two silver medals in honour for his services. He moved to Vienna shortly after the war and worked as a wholesale drapery merchant. In 1921 he got married to Stella Eisenthal (1888-1936) ...

Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...

This collection relates to the lives and emigration attempts of the Stettner family. As the family members were all born in different countries—Maximilian and his daughter Ilse in Czechoslovakia, Kathe in Austria, and Walter in Italy—they were under different refugee quotas and had different opportunities for immigration. The collection illuminates the hardships imposed by circumstances of birth and ...

Anna Zajac (later Leist) was born on January 28, 1925, in Mannheim, Germany, to Dora Swierkowska and Wolf Zajac. Dora was born on May 24, 1899, and Wolf was born on May 22, 1893(?), both in Zgierz, Poland, near Łódź. They moved to Mannheim soon after they married and lived there until 1930, when they moved to Berlin. Anna had seven brothers and three sisters, but two brothers died soon after birth. ...

Beate Rocker (nicknamed Deta) was born Beate Goldfeld on 7 November 1924 in Vienna, Austria to Israel and Dora Goldfeld. Her father Israel owned a sweater factory in Vienna. Her mother Dora (née Heitner, 1883-1942) was born in Novosolitza, Romania (Novoselytsia, Ukraine). Beate had one brother, Albert (later Albert Goldfield, 1914-2005), who was born on 26 April 1914 in Novosolitza. Beate left Vienna ...

Flora Cohen was born on December 3, 1914, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Abraham and Alijda (Aleida) Van Beek Cohen. Flora had three older siblings, Izak (1900-1965), Salomon (1904-1981), and Elisabeth (1906-1996), and two siblings who died before she was born, Moses (1901-1901), and Rosina (1902-1903). Flora’s father Abraham was born on January 23, 1874, in Rotterdam, to Isaac and Elizabeth van Lier ...

Lilly Cohn (later Rosenberg) was born on January 30, 1928, in Halberstadt, Germany, to Ernst and Margarete Marcuse Cohn. Ernst was born on December 4, 1886, to Hugo and Selma Lusch Cohn, in Halberstadt where his family had lived for more than 300 years. Margarete was born on April 4, 1896, in Stargard, Germany (Stargard, Poland), to Eugen and Hedwig Samuel Marcuse. Ernst owned a linen factory and store, ...