Georg was my Great Great Uncle. His wife, Elwina Wolff was my Great-Great Aunt, and she and her husband Georg Neustadt committed suicide in 1937 after a lot of Nazi harassment. They were aware of impending transport to a concentration camp. Georg killed himself on 29 May 1937, and his wife Elwina followed in kind a few months later on 14 July 1937. Their daughter Ruth escaped to The Netherlands with her husband, Ernest Kaufmann, and their two young sons. On April 5, 1944, the Kaufmann family was transported from The Netherlands to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Just a month later, on May 18 1944, they were all four sent to the Auschwitz Birkenau Extermination Camp in Poland. By 1945 they were all declared officially dead. Elwina and George did have a son, Emanuel who fled to London and died in London in the 1960s.
Georg was my Great Great Uncle. His wife, Elwina Wolff was my Great-Great Aunt, and she and her husband Georg Neustadt committed suicide in 1937 after a lot of Nazi harassment. They were aware of impending transport to a concentration camp. Georg killed himself on 29 May 1937, and his wife Elwina followed in kind a few months later on 14 July 1937. Their daughter Ruth escaped to The Netherlands with her husband, Ernest Kaufmann, and their two young sons. On April 5, 1944, the Kaufmann family was transported from The Netherlands to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Just a month later, on May 18 1944, they were all four sent to the Auschwitz Birkenau Extermination Camp in Poland. By 1945 they were all declared officially dead. Elwina and George did have a son, Emanuel who fled to London and died in London in the 1960s.
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