Stern & Loebl Families Database
A fully searchable database containing the Jewish ancestors of the Stern and Lobl/Loebl families - and their many descendant lines as researched by Gerald Stern.
Elsbeth Helena LISSNER
1905 - 1996 (90 years)-
Name Elsbeth Helena LISSNER [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 12 Jan 1905 [2, 3, 4] Birth 1 Dec 1905 Berlin, Germany [1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Death 22 Aug 1996 Soest, Netherlands [1, 2, 3, 4] Person ID I6011 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
Family Joachim Ernst GUMPEL, b. 12 Mar 1904, Dessau, Germany d. 22 May 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Age 51 years) Marriage 3 Dec 1934 Barcelona, Spain [1, 2, 3, 4] Children 1. Living 2. Living Family ID F2273 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
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Notes - [Floss from Kitty Cooper.FTW]
[Thannhauser.FTW]
[sara.GED]
Susana Gumpel Slagt about her mother:
"she worked as secretary to the
> director of General Motors and also one of the richest men in
> Germany, in 1932 he saw alredy how difficult it was going to be for
> jews with the nazis and offered my mother to emigrate to Barcelona
> again as secretary.
> My father who was an engineer, and quite spoiled went to Spain and
> there he met my mother, they married and had a wonderfull time until
> the civil war started there. My father went to the States to look
> for a job and my mother continued with GM, but now she left for
> Marroko. In the meantime my father was offered a job in Philips in
> Holland and after that my mother had to move to Marseille. They
> were again reunited here in Holland in the beguining of 1938.
> At the end of 38, Philips offered to my parents to go to Argentina,
> to escape the growing nazi time. In january 1939 they left and after
> some months in Uruguay, they arrived in Buenos Aires. In december of
> that year I was born and they had a small flat and could just cope
> with what they had.
> In 1940 they got a letter from my grandmother Rosa Gumpel-Neumann in
> which she asked for money to emigrate with her daughter Gertie and
> her husband, to Argentina. They went from Berlin, via Vladivostok to
> Nagasaki and then with a ship to B.A.
> My oma came to live with us, we had to move to a bigger apartment,
> she lived with us until her death.
> Slowly my parents were in a better financial situation and were
> thinking of a trip to Europe after so many years, but... while my
> father was playing tennis, and I was playing on the next court, he
> got a heart attack and died immediately. My poor mother started
> again to work as a secretary to one of the directors in Philips.
> It was very hard for her and I admire her tremendously what she did
> for us, I studied for a doctor in social work and Tomas, my brother
> is an engineer. Fortunately my mother got money from Germany and she
> could lead a more confortable life.
- [Floss from Kitty Cooper.FTW]
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