Hanni Brandstadter lived in Leipzig, Germany. She worked in the fur business while raising her only child. In October 1938, Hanni and her daughter Erika Weiser were among the 17,000 Jews deported to Poland. This occurred a month after Great Britain, France, and Italy attempted to appease Hitler by allowing the annexation by Germany of Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. For the next several years, Hanni and her daughter were enslaved in the Krakow Ghetto. In 1941, Hanni and her daughter were sent to Międzyrzec Podlaska where few Jews survived the mass murders by the Nazis and their collaborators. Hanni was murdered in the Holocaust. Her only child, Erika Weiser, survived Auschwitz.
May Hashem Avenge Her Blood. השם יקום דמה
Tomas Kohn was the son of Nicholas Kohn and Eva Klein Kohn. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. In 1944, Tomas and his mother were rounded up and forced to Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Tomas was taken from his mother, stripped naked, and led into the showers. Instead of water, poisonous Zyklon B gas poured down. The nine-year-old child suffocated to death after suffering for many minutes. The murdered body of this beautiful, innocent, sweet child was then dragged to the ovens and burned. Years later, when his parents died, they left instructions to be cremated. Just like their son.
May Hashem Avenge His Death. השם יקום דמו
Sura Feiga Weisz Klein lived in Bilky, Ukraine. She had ten children with her husband Zsigmond. When their youngest child was only two-years-old, Zsigmond unexpectedly died of an infection. For the next twenty-five years, Sura raised her children while having to run the family business. 1n 1944, Sura, her daughter Bella, another daughter Eva, a son Lipot, two nieces, and two nephews were among the 435,000 Hungarian Jews who were forced to Auschwitz. From these loved ones of this family, only one daughter survived the Murder Camp. The remaining, including Sura, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. May Hashem Avenge Their Blood. השם יקום דמם
Frank Popovitz died at the age of 39. He was married to Margit Popovitz. They had three children.
Kalman moved to Netanya, Israel from Argentina in about 1975. He had left Europe for South America around 1920.
Adolf Kohn and Berta Rappaport Kohn are with their grandson Robby. In May 1944, this family sent to Auschwitz and murdered upon their arrival by the Nazis and their collaborators. Another grandson, ten-year-old Tomas Kohn, was also murdered at Auschwitz. May Hashem Avenge Their Blood. השם יקום דמם
From Left: Bella Klein, mother Sura, Eva Klein, father Zsigmond Klein. Bella and Sura were murdered at Auschwitz. Eva Survived Auschwitz. Zsigmond died in 1918 of an infection.
Bok Kyong Kim emigrated to the United States in the 1960s with her husband and three children. Bok and her husband had suffered through the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War.
Emigrated to the United States in 1914 from Romania. David was about thirty-five when he arrived.
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.
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.
