We are searching for the heirs of Leopold KLINGER, a brother of Rudolf KLINGER.

Leopold KLINGER was listed after 1945 as “missing� (ie of unknown place of residence).

His brother Rudolf KLINGER born 23 Jun 1881 and his wife Milada KLINGER(ova), nee OESTERREICHER(ova) born 1 Apr 1888 had a daughter Kamila.

Kamila KLINGER(ova), was born on 31 Aug 1909 in Prague. She married Otto F FISCHER, born 16 November 1906.
Kamila FISCHER(ova) probably had a son from her previous marriage Peter GUENSTLING, who was born on 28 June 1934 in Prague. Kamila FISCHER probably left for PARAGUAY on 12 April 1948. She had a Czech passport - Number 1712/32, issued by the Police HQ in Prague, extended by the Czechoslovak Embassy in London till 1946. A repatriation card issued by the Ministry of Protection and Social Care in Prague under the No. 1710/45. Her last known place of residence was Prague 10, Sterboholy Reg. No. 4.

We believe that Milada KLINGER remarried BRYAN, and that she lived in the USA at 5347, Ferndale, Pl Pinellas Park, FL, 333565. Other listed heirs of Leopold KLINGER – and likely to have been family relatives were:

Pavla KROPACK(ova) [ KROPACEK ] Hermina HAJK(ova) [ HAJEK ] Marta GRAUER(ova) [ GRAUER ]

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Paul FIALA is the son of Karel FIALA, born in 1906 in Lvov, the son of a Czech diplomat in Lvov, Poland at that time.

Karel divorced his first wife in 1938. He left Czechoslovakia and joined the Czech army in exile to fight the Nazis. With his unit he was transferred to France and later to England where he remained stationed until November 1945. Then he returned with his unit to Czechoslovakia.

Before he returned to Prague from England with his army unit, he re-married and had two children in his second marriage. First his son, Pavel, was born while still in England, either in 1944 or 1945. Later they had a daughter, who may have been born already in Prague.

Pavel might call himself Paul rather than Pavel. His family name might be spelled with two L’s well FIALLA rather then Fiala, since his grandfather spelled his name with double L.

Do you recognize any of this?

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Little Miss FEUERMANN -

We know very little about her – not even the spelling of the name is certain. It is a transliteration from the Hebrew language, and in English use it may well be spelled in a different way. We are only certain of the pronunciation of the FEUERMANN name.

The photograph depicts Little Miss FEUERMANN accepting a kiss from her friend Tommy.

We believe that Miss FEUERMANN is living in England, but we have no idea where.

From the photograph we would guess that she must have been born in 1933-1934. The only other thing we know about her is that her father was a doctor.

Do you recognise any of these names, or know anyone else who might have some knowledge?

The picture was taken on 19 June 1938 in Bad Darkau, Czechoslovakia.

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Samuel GARD
We are searching for Samuel GARD, born about 1931.

An Australian military policeman who served in WWII was taken prisoner by the Germans on Crete and later interned in Germany. The soldier helped a young Jewish boy. Along with some friends they hid him in the Camp and taught him to speak English with an Australian accent.

The soldier arranged through the Red Cross to have the boy’s name changed to Samuel GARD. He was 13 when they first hid him (so at a guess Samuel was therefore born in about 1931).

Samuel was handed over to the Americans as a displaced person.

Where did he go?

What happened to him?

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We are searching for Krystyna BORSHEWSKA nee FRIEDWALD born in Lwow on 8 May 1926.

She is the daughter of Matylda nee WAJS and Dr Wiktor FRIEDWALD (poet, writer, killed in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942). The family lived in Warsaw before World War II. In 1940 they were in Lwow. Krystyna was a student in a nursery school, or a medical assistant, before she fled Poland, but did not complete her studies there.

Krystyna did not register with the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, so that no one of the FRIEDWALD part of the family knew that she had survived. It seems that with the help of a Jewish organisation from Gdansk, and her uncle Mr Stanislav KOWALSKI ,who was a diplomat in Polish Embassy in Brussels, Belgium from 1 Apr 1938 to till the start of the war, she went to England (between 2 April 1947 and 30 September 1947). Mr KOWALSKI was the husband of a sister of Matylda the mother of Krystyna.

It is believed she may have lived in Israel between 1969 and 1971 at Number 48 Kiryat-Gyora street, Or-Yehuda. She was married to a Mr BORSHEVSKI . The marriage ended in divorce, and she left Israel in 1971.

Krystyna Friedwald BORSHEVSKI has a son; his name is Stanislav PANZISHIN (or PANTSISHIN ) or similar. The correct spelling of the name is not known. He evidently left Israel with his mother. His father’s name was Stefan.

Looking for her are two cousins in Israel, the daughters of Joachim-Maximilian FRIEDWALD who is the brother of Wiktor.

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FEIGENBAUM and EDELSTEIN Family From 1938 Vienna, Austria
We have been asked to locate any relatives of the extensive FEIGENBAUM and EDELSTEIN family who lived in Vienna (AUSTRIA) in the 1930’s.

Our knowledge was sparse at first, but grew extensively when we had FOUND the first cousin!.

We hope, with your help, to assemble new and additional information and find other members of thes families:

For extensive detailed information, click here. Then click on “can you help us find…” in the left-hand column, then click on the name.

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We are searching for Berta FEDER(OVA)

All we know of her at this stage is that she emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the USA Berta FEDER is the sister of the late Oskar REINISCH, a businesman from Prague
Hodkovicky Registration Number 135.

Oskar Reinisch was declared dead on 28 March, 1945. He had been married to Ruzena REINISCH(OVA)
who pre deceased her husband. There was also a nephew, called Karel REINISCH.

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CLEVELAND (AP) - The nation’s chief immigration judge is getting closer to deciding what to do about an Ohio man stripped of his citizenship amid accusations he was a Nazi concentration camp guard. John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN’-yuk) argues that he shouldn’t be deported because he could be tortured in his native Ukraine. There’s a hearing in Demjanjuk’s case today in Cleveland.
Demjanjuk is 85. The former auto worker lives a secluded life in a Cleveland suburb and is said to be in poor health. -30-

Holocaust Museum Houston

Author/Filmmaker Joshua Greene to Discuss
Legal and Moral Issues in Seeking Justice after War Crimes

HOUSTON, TX (Nov. 28, 2005) – During the Dachau war crime trials, 1,600 Nazis stood accused of atrocious crimes against millions of prisoners held in camps at Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg and Buchenwald.

Almost 60 years later, lawmakers, religionists and historians continue to struggle with issues raised at their trials. What principles guide the pursuit of justice? In extreme war crimes, are there degrees of guilt? What roles do forgiveness and reconciliation play?
For more click here.

By ROBIN BROWN
The News Journal
11/28/2005
In one of the Holocaust’s lesser-known atrocities, SS commander Heinrich Himmler established a concentration camp north of Berlin where about 132,000 prisoners were starved, tortured, used as slave labor and subjected to so-called “medical experiments.”

They were all women.

At Ravensbrück, the Nazis’ only major concentration camp exclusively for women, about one-fifth of the prisoners were Jewish. Others were political prisoners, prostitutes, Gypsies, criminals, lesbians and Jehovah’s Witnesses — all groups persecuted by Hitler’s regime. Fewer than one in 10 survived. For full story.