Mason, Lee
Of the 600 hundred citizens in the village of Meimbressen, Germany, 70 of them were Jewish. It is now considered a lost community, as not one Jewish family is left. […]
Mason, Hilde
Hilde Grunebaum was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923 to Julius and Hedwig Seligman Grunebaum. They were a “sophisticated” city family and good German Reform Jews. Hedwig’s birthday was November […]
Lipson, Sundel
Sundel Lipson was born on February 15, 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania to Mayer and Gitel Lipsches. He had five brothers and one sister. Sundel met and married Rachel Goodman Bendalin, […]
Lipson, Rachel
Rachel (Goodman Bendalin) Lipson was born on April 18, 1910 in Shaudina, Lithuania to Jacob and Chana (Goodman) Bendalin. She lived on and helped run her parents’ farm. She had […]
Liebman, Lucie
Lucie Burian Liebman was born in 1927 in Vienna, Austria to parents of Czech nationality. In 1938, after the Anschluss of Austria, Lucie woke up to Nazi flags hanging from […]
Kupfer, Mark
Mark Kupfer was born in November 1929 in Nowogródek, Poland – the second youngest of nine children. The family ran a dry goods store and drugstore. Following the invasion of […]
Krugman, Thelma
Thelma (Krueger) Krugman was born on February 14, 1927 in Sowina, Poland. Her family lived there in a small self-supporting farm. They were forcibly evicted by the invading Nazis and […]
Kotkowski, Itzhak
Itzhak Kotkowski was born on December 25, 1921 in Warsaw, Poland. He grew up in the Jewish Quarter or “Old Town,” and his father was an owner of a general […]
Kessel, Samuel
Samuel Kessel was born in Lithuania on March 10, 1922, the youngest of five children. His father had died shortly before he was born. When World War II broke out, […]
Kellen, Julia
Julia (Filipovsky) Kellen was born on October 28, 1914 in Kybartai, Lithuania. After the invasion of Lithuania by the German Army in 1941, Julia and her family were forced into […]