Oscar Meyer Family Collection 1920-2001 bulk 1933-1943

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Oscar Meyer Family Collection 1920-2001 bulk 1933-1943

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This collection documents the experience of the Meyer family with a focus on the years from 1933 to 1943. Oscar Meyer was a successful businessman in Essen, Germany. Unable to escape National Socialist persecution himself, he was able to send his son Gerd to England in 1939. Oscar, his wife Cypora née Bendik (alternatively Carola or Karola Bendick), and their daughter Marya (alternatively Marga) were taken to Poland on October 26, 1941 and perished outside Łódź. Gerd joined the British army to fight Germany in 1944. After the war, he moved to Israel, changed his name to Gad Meiry, and later immigrated to the United States. The collection contains photocopies of family photographs, residency records from Essen, business records, Gestapo files, the passport of Gerd Meyer, and records of the seizure of the Meyer estate used for restitution claims.

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Meiry, Gad

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Meyer, Oscar

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Meyer family

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Wäschefabrik Heumann und Meyer

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Meyer, Gerd.

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Meyer, Cypora née Bendik

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Meiry, Asher Benjamin

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Oscar Meyer was born in Aachen, Germany on October 23, 1885 to Moses Meyer and his wife Henriette. Oscar worked as a self-employed businessman at the men’s clothing factory Heumann and Meyer. On April 9, 1923, he married Cypora (sometimes spelled Carola or Karola) Bendik (sometimes spelled Bendick), who was born February 12, 1902. Their son Gerd Meyer was born in Essen on July 25, 1924, and their daughter Marya (sometimes spelled Marga) was born August 8, 1925. The famil...

Bendik family

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