Wegrzyn family papers c 1900-1957

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....

Harpuder - Peter - 1931-c1945

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Harpuder - Grete - d c1945

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Harpuder - Gertrud - d c1944

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Wegrzyn - Charlotte - 1927

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Wegrzyn - Arno - b 1937

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Harpuder - Alfred

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Wegrzyn - Jacques - b 1931

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Wegrzyn - Sigmund - b 1899

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Sigmund (also Zygmunt, Sisia) Wegrzyn was born in Przemysl (Galicia, Poland) in 1899. He trained as a motor mechanic and owned a haulage company in Berlin in the 1930s. In 1922 he married Chaja Mindla ('Minna') Gritz, also born in Przemysl in 1901. They had five children. The couple emigrated to Shanghai in 1939 with three of their children: Charlotte (born 1927), Jacques (born 1931) and Arno (born 1937). (Their sons Hans (born 1923) and Leo (born 1928) are not mentioned in the surv...

Wegrzyn - Chaja Mindla - b 1901

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Stutthof (Concentration camp)

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