Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Internment on the Isle of Man
  • February 1940 - October 1940

German refugees in the UK, even Jews like Gerhart Feidt, were deemed potential enemy aliens

Last Christmas in Berlin
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In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together

Rosa’s fateful choice
  • 1936 - 1940

Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse

The Ringels in Berlin—time of prosperity
  • 1881 - 1931

From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.

The Scheunenviertal in the 1880s
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Schija Ringel came from Poland to seek his fortune in Berlin’s old Jewish district.