Simonson and Schreiber families: family histories 2009

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

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On June 10, 1940, the Gestapo took control of Terezìn (Theresienstadt), a fortress, built in 1780-1790 in what is now the Czech Republic, and set up prison in the Small Fortress (Kleine Festung). By 24 November 1941, the Main Fortress (grosse Festung, ie the town Theresienstadt) was turned into a walled ghetto. The function of Theresienstadt was to provide a front for the extermination operation of Jews. To the outside it was presented by the Nazis as a model Jewish settlement, but in reality it...

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

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Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives in Auschwitz....

Schreiber - families

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Simonson - families

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Simms - Alfred - b 1923

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Siegfried Simonson (1880-c1944) grew up in a bourgeois family in Berlin. He was educated at home by a governess. At the age of ten he went to the College Royal Francais. He spent two years in London for his training in banking. He travelled widely, collected antiquities and participated in various sports. He joined his father's bank as a partner in 1910. He and his brother Felix were the owners of the bank when his father died in 1913. He served in the army in the First World War. I...

Simonson, Siegfried. 1880

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Simonson, Ilse. 1890

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Simonson, Marie Amalie. 1923

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Schreiber, Hans. 1895

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