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Escaped to England from Bamberg in March 1939, two months prior to his parents, in the company of the family of Ludwig Hammelburger, a cousin of George's father, Fritz. He left behind within the family home the luxuries of cook, chauffeur and house keeper and at first lived in London's poor East End with a Jewish family.

On the internment of his father, George and his mother had to leave their new home in Low Fell near Gateshead. The two of them went to Keswick in the Lake District where they lived in one room and found very basic work. Later they returned and George undertook a five year apprenticeship as an engineer, worked for a while in Gateshead and London then joining the family business, Loblite Limited, which he and his brother Ronnie (who died of Multiple Sclerosis in 1965) ran successfully.

George with his brother Ronnie and others, founded the Newcastle Reform Synagogue in 1963 and remains Honorary Life President. George served as a Justice of the Peace for over 30 years sitting in Gateshead Magistrates' Court.

In 2007 George was honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his charitable services over many years.

George's personal testimony and biography entitled "The Boy from Bamberg" was self-published in 2014 and contains a history of his and his wife Eve's family: http://www.sternmail.co.uk/boyfrombamberg/

Hebrew name: Gamliel ben Sandel ha'Levi.

Guenter married Eva Marianne became Eve Marion HEINEMANN on 12 Apr 1953 in London, UK. Eva (daughter of Fritz (Fred) HEINEMANN and Gertrud Trude STERN) was born on 23 Jan 1928 in Dusseldorf, Germany; died on 17 Jun 2019 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Buried at Hazelrigg Cemetery Grave No 366). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hebrew name: Chava bat Meir

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Trained with the Bamberg textile manufacturers Sichel & Kaufmann from 1902. Later he worked with the Bing metalware company in Nuremberg. From about 1910 he worked for some time in London returning in 1913 to enter the family business. During WW1 he served in the Somme on the German army front line where he was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1917 (rare for a Jew) and was awarded the Iron Crosses 2nd and later 1st Class as well as the War Injury Medal and the Bavarian Military Cross of Merit. He monitored British military messages!

After the war, he returned to the family electrical wholesale business in Bamberg and with his brothers Salamon and Robert began manufacturing in 1919 resulting in 1924 in the separate manufacturing business, Hugo Loebl Soehne, which employed 200 people.

On the morning after Kristallnacht, Fritz and his brother Robert were arrested but released the same evening because it is said, the Gestapo Chief in Bamberg went to school with Fritz. In December 1938 the manufacturing business was 'sold' and Fritz and his family pursued their departure from Germany to England.

Here they began afresh (Loblite Limited) in Gateshead, with some encouragement from the British Government to support this depressed economic area, but also following a period of internment as they were regarded as "enemy aliens" at Huyton Internment Camp near Liverpool.

Buried At Hazelrigg Jewish Cemetery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Hebrew name: Sandel ben David ha'Levi.

Fritz married Elsa FRIED on 11 May 1919 in Bamberg, Germany. Elsa (daughter of William FRIED and Betty BACHMANN) was born on 6 Aug 1892 in Bamberg, Germany; died on 28 Mar 1981 in Gateshead, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daughter of a Bamberg hop merchant.

Buried At Hazelrigg Jewish Cemetery, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Hebrew name: Meir ben Yosef

Fritz married Gertrud Trude STERN on 6 Feb 1927 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Gertrud (daughter of Imanuel Emanuel STERN and Minnie STERN) was born on 27 Jul 1906 in Dusseldorf, Germany; died on 6 Jul 1994 in London, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hebrew name: David ha'Levi.

Hugo married Karolina Lina SCHLOSS. Karolina (daughter of Moritz SCHLOSS and Fanny BAMBERGER) was born on 23 Aug 1861 in Maroldsweisach, Germany; died on 29 Sep 1942 in Theresienstadt and then Treblinka. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A Bamberg hop merchant.

Killed in action WW1.

William married Betty BACHMANN on 15 Aug 1888 in Bamberg, Germany. Betty (daughter of Simon BACHMANN and Hedwig REITZENBERGER) was born on 17 Mar 1867 in Kronach, Germany; died on 29 Sep 1942 in Theresienstadt and then Treblinka. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Betty Bachmann

Joseph married Henrietta GUGENHEIM on 29 Mar 1891 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Henrietta (daughter of Isaak GUGENHEIM and Anna DURLACHER) was born on 5 Dec 1866 in Zweibruecken, Germany; died on 25 Nov 1933 in Dusseldorf, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Members of Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, London.

Imanuel married Minnie STERN on 3 Jun 1904 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Minnie (daughter of Bendix STERN and Matilda BERLINER) was born on 6 Apr 1885 in London, UK; died on 30 Dec 1955 in London, England (cremated remains in columbarium at Pound Lane, Willesden). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]