Wessley - Thea - née Deuches - b c1924

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Thea Wessley (née Deuches) was the only child of Siegfried and Fanny Deuches from Vienna. She was sent to England in March 1939 when she was 15 years old. Thea stayed with a family in Hastings.

Her parents were separately deported to concentration camps in Poland. In 1940 her father writes from Lwow (Lemberg) whilst her mother is still in Vienna. Fanny was deported to Opole concentration camp but the circumstances of Siegfried's death are unknown.

Thea's grandfather Hermann Zwicker (born in Moravia in 1866), a horse dealer, was deported to Treblinka concentration camp. Her aunt Ella Hirsch (born 1900) and her husband Arthur Hirsch and their daughter Erna were deported to Minsk. They were all murdered.

From the guide to the Thea Wessley: family correspondence, 1938-1972, (Wiener Library)

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associatedWith Deuches - Fanny person
associatedWith Deuches - Siegfried person
associatedWith Hirsch - Arthur person
associatedWith Hirsch - Ella - b 1900 person
associatedWith Hirsch - Erna person
associatedWith Lwow ghetto xx Lemberg ghetto corporateBody
associatedWith Minsk extermination camp corporateBody
associatedWith Opole concentration camp corporateBody
associatedWith Treblinka concentration camp corporateBody
associatedWith Zwicker - Hermann - b 1866 person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Treblinka - Poland
Vienna - Austria
Minsk - Belarus
Lwow - Poland
Opole - Poland
Hastings - East Sussex
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