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Herdenk Berthold Mendel Judenfreund

Berthold Mendel Judenfreund

Frankfurt am Main, – Auschwitz,

Reached the age of 27 years

Occupation: Farm labourer

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Verhaal Berthold Rosenstock

Berthold grew up in the Jewish Orphanage in Frankfurt after his mother's death in 1918/9. He was three years old. In 1938 his brother Gershon (Georg) emigrated to America under an affadavit issued by his aunt Pauline Pearl's family in New Jersey. His brother declined to use the affadavit and decided instead to remain and work with the Hehalutz Zionist youth movement and the Berlin Aliyah school th…

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A Youth Aliyah Hachsharah training-camp

More than 70 years after Berthold’s death at Auschwitz his nephew Bruce wrote:

My father emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1939, not long after Kristallnacht. He grew up in a Jewish orphanage in Frankfurt with his younger brother, Berthold. My father, Georg, was five when he was taken into the orphanage. His brother was three. After completing Gymnasium in 1933, my father went t…

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Address & residents

Address in July 1942

Kibboets Laag-Keppel

Laag-Keppel B 49, Laag-Keppel

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Address in August 1942 – January 1943

Centraal Israëlitisch Krankzinnigengesticht Het Apeldoornse Bos

Zutphensestraat 106, Apeldoorn

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