Silberstein - Anne-Lisa - b 1921
Biographical notes:
Anne-Lisa Silberstein (born in 1921) is the daughter of pharmacist Rudolf (1882-1932) and Gertrud Klara Silberstein (1889-1953) who lived in Berlin. Anne-Lisa moved to Amsterdam with her mother in 1938 and emigrated to Palestine in 1939. She obtained Palestinian citizenship in 1941. Anne-Lisa Silberstein later got married to Oliver Lawton and three daughters.
Anne-Lisa's aunt Gertrud Sommerfeld and grandmother Dorothea Fischer (née Hadra) perished at Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps respectively. Her cousin Ingelore ('Illo') Sommerfeld (b 1926) was sent to England as a young girl and taken into the care of a business colleague of her father's. She later worked for the BBC and became a designer.
From the guide to the Anne-Lisa Silberstein: personal papers, 1903-1945, (Wiener Library)
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