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.
Erika Weiser Klein and her husband Menhard Klein are seated in the right.
Erika Weiser and Margaret Popovitz were sisters-in-law. They considered each other sisters.
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.
Popovitz Family with first names.
The Lipot Klein/Johànna Hàni Josovic Family lived in Bilky, Ukraine. The three children were Zikmund, Eva, and Abraham. When he was a teenager, the father Lipot loved to draw and wanted to be an artist. He applied and was accepted to study at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. His father forbid Lipot to go. Lipot, against the wishes of his father, then joined the army and fought in World War I. After his father unexpectedly died, Lipot burned his artwork and never drew again. In 1944, twenty-five years after WWI, 435,000 Hungarian Jews, including this honest, loving family, were rounded up and transported to the Murder Camp Auschwitz. The children of Lipot and Johanna were 8, 15, and 16 when they were gassed at Auschwitz along with their parents. May Hashem Avenge Their Blood. השם יקום דמם
Margaret and Kalman visiting their grandparents at the Mount Of Olives Cemetery.
