Gift of Carol Biermann

Id no. 341.94, Other, German

Terezin, Theresienstadt, Bohemia

Subject(s):  Deportations

This cardboard tag identified the possessions of Hildegard ?Sara? Biermann. Hildegard was deported from Berlin, Germany to the Terezin Ghetto with her family. Hildegard (nee Baeck) Biermann (1903-1992), her husband Georg Biermann (1890-1945), and their son Ludwig (called Lutz, b. 1931) were deported from Berlin to Terezin in 1943. Georg Biermann was a tax lawyer and World War I veteran. He had lost a leg in the war. He died in Terezin on April 3, 1945. After liberation Hildegard and Ludwig Biermann were at the Deggendorf Displaced Persons camp until they immigrated to the United States in 1946.

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