David Popovitz with wife Ester Rubin. Photo about 1950.
On the left is Menhard Klein and Erika Weiser Klein. On the right is David Popovitz with wife Ester.
Izrael Klein was a great violinist. He moved to Belgium in the early 1930s. Izrael was murdered in the Holocaust.
Erika Weiser and Margaret Popovitz were sisters-in-law. They considered each other sisters.
Erika Weiser Klein and her husband Menhard Klein are seated in the right.
This photo was taken after World War II. Erika had spent seven years in Nazi custody including Auschwitz. Menhard had been in a labor camp. His mother, one sister, and two brothers had been murdered in the Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivors From Left to Right: Fred Cassel, Vera Cassel, Erika Klein, Menhard Klein, Herta Perl, Shlomo Perl
Erika Weiser Klein 1947 In New York. Erika was an Auschwitz survivor.
From left to right: Erika Weiser Klein and Margaret Klein Popovitz. They were more like sisters than sister-in-laws. The photos were taken about twenty years apart.
My mother was born, raised, and lived in Leipzig, Germany. In October 1938, at the age of 21, she was arrested by the Nazis and deported to Poland along with my grandmother and seventeen thousand other Polish Jews. At 23, Mom was housed in the Krakow Ghetto. At 24, sent to Międzyrzec Podlaska. When she was 26, Auschwitz became her hell. Then came Wilischthal Flossenbürg. In May 1945, Mom was finally liberated from Theresienstadt. She was 28 and alone. Her mother and first husband murdered by the Nazis. It had been seven years since her initial custody. Hashem only knows what abuses my mother suffered. The cryings I would sometimes hear while she slept described what she did not want her children to know.
Grandparents with their grandson.
Ester Rubin. Wife of David Popovitz.
Popovitz Family
Popovitz Family with first names.
