Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Eilertsen roots in Farsund, Norway
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Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast

Eilertsens at sea
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Members of a farming family took to the sea both as an occupational calling and a means of emigration

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