Our family during the Nazi years in Berlin

Discovery Notebook

A newly discovered death record for Rosa Wohlgemuth helps to unravel an old mystery about the pouch…

When born in Berlin in 1936, author Sue Key was already classified as “Mischling in the first…

The recent Paechter discoveries that showed us related to the Australian Peter Nash has netted…

In its heyday during the German imperial period, Friedländer's was the place to purchase an…

In the previous post, Google Translate rendered the term "Abgabe Aktion" as "sale campaign," but…

A couple of days ago, Joanne was rereading the Hilda affidavit and noticed this line. 

Here is a question for Ruby family members to ponder. Elly and Helga Ringel reached New York in…

The other Berlin couple that married in London in January 1911, Dina Twiasschor and Israel…

Back in Berlin after getting married in London, Betty and Pinkas produced two…

JewishGen's Holocaust Database Project announced publication of the Herbert Beritt…

To find out more about the Elly Ringel database listing, we click on the link behind the…

A couple of days ago, I stumbled on this new Elly Ringel citation in the JewishGen Holocaust…

One of the treasures from the Berlin Landesarchiv Wohlgemuth files is the two-page typescript…

Entrance to the building at Trautenaustraße 5 in 2012, with nine Stolpersteine in the…

Here's the full translation. Comments to follow in another post. 

No. 331
Berlin-…

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

Enjoy this video blog of my visit to Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin. 

I think I found the final resting place of Erich Wasserreich and his wife and daughter.…

The full English translation of an affidavit by Hilda Wohlgemuth Leibman in her 1958 restitution…

The first Nazi actions
  • Jul 23, 2018

As a girl, Helga was attracted more to her father’s outlook than her mother’s which she found…

First we go to Betty Wohlgemuth, saying goodbye to her daughter and granddaughter, who are…

Betty’s fate
  • Jul 23, 2018

Betty Wohlgemuth lived three and a half years longer after saying goodbye to her daughter and…

Following her death at the clandestine clinic, Betty Wohlgemuth was buried at Weißensee by the…

I’m getting ready for a journey of discovery to Germany and Poland coming up in a few weeks.…

The Nazis kept a card file of German Jews called Reichsvereinigung der Judes in Deutschland.…

The discovery that Betty Wohlgemuth is buried together with her husband in Weißensee cemetery…

Joanne finds the Wohlgemuth grave in Weißensee cemetery. Betty is buried there together with…

I also re-read mom's story and saw that it was the German Red Cross who notified them of Bette's…

Jo, Great to read your reflections. Quick answer on the Wohlgemuth history. That's the one…

There are two Hermann Ringel businesses listed in…

Since I have some momentum today and I just mentioned Aunt Hilda's citizenship annulment, here…

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