Manes - Eva - d 2004

Rudolf was born on 7 April 1906 in Berlin. He did his apprenticeship in the fur industry in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1929 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He visited his family twice but did not return to Germany after the National Socialists had come to power and never saw his parents again. Rudolf was interned as enemy alien in September 1939. Soon after he joined the Foreign Legion and served in Northern Africa. His unit was mainly involved in building roads on behalf of the Société des Grands Travaux de l'Est with whom he continued working after the war as an accountant in various locations worldwide. He retired in Paris and died in 2001.

Eva and Annemarie Manes, daughters of Philipp Manes, fled to Britain in 1939. Eva was working as an office manager in Oxfordshire after the Second World War. She died in 2004 at the age of 95.

For Philipp Manes's biography see WL Doc 1346.

From the guide to the Rudolf, Philipp and Eva Manes: personal papers and correspondence, 1915-1971, (Wiener Library)