Lest we forget—family Holocaust testimony

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British professor is the daughter of Gerd Paechter, who arrived on the Kindertransport
The details of Kurt's deportation and uncertainty about his eventual fate.

Here is the full Stolpersteine essay about the Salomon Mendel Landau family from the Zeit…

The model of a Prussian officer—correctness all over and a face set for making decisions.
The youngest child of Leo and Rosa Jacob lived in Johannesburg, New York and London.
Rosa Paechter Jacob, her husband and mother all died after deportation to Theresienstadt.
Margot describes her experiences as a new Polish immigrant in 1939 and '40
Margot describes her family history and privileged upbringing in Berlin
Images from the Margot Dränger interview on the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive web…
Margot was a Ringel cousin from Berlin whose family fled east when ours went west—a big mistake.…

I have known for a while that Schija's brother Leib Ringel also moved to Berlin because he…

I'm sure there are better sources on the German occupation of Serbia in 1941-44, but the…

Before getting back to the Twiasschor story, let's dig deeper into the family of Rosa Ringel's…

I wrote yesterday that Ze'ev Sharon (Wolf Schattner) was born in 1913, which Walter found…

Following up the previous post to resolve discrepancies in the two Betty Twiasschor records, The…

Until now, we didn't have much information about Hermann Ringel's sister Betty. We knew about…

We’re going to have to talk about it. The Holocaust. It happened here 75 years ago and it still…

Not all the family members mentioned here were as lucky as Betty Wohlgemuth (to have died of…

I missed this when I posted about Margot yesterday. Her full name was Margueritte Shattner.

OMG! Rosa Ringel is in the Names database, too. She was the mother of Ze'ev and Margot and was…

Yesterday, I mentioned searching for Betty Katz in the Yad Vashem Names Database, which is a…

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