Edith Schamest

Edith SCHAMEST, née DICKENSCHEID: b. 27 Oct 1902, Dörnesheim - d. 16 Nov 1991, Pinellas, Florida

A document to be found in the Arolsen Archives gives her original surname as DICKENSCHEID:

https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/70330009/?p=1&s=sc...

It seems possible that she was not of Jewish heritage and was not a persecuted person ...

The following collection also apparently contains a postcard addressed to her from her husband in Buchenwald, postmarked 22.11.1938, Weimar:

Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail

Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64 

https://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/1990.183.64_01_fnd_en.pdf

Emigrated to the USA - cf. New York passenger listing:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G94V-FCPK?i=1473&c...

Edith Schamest Female 43 1946 New York, New York, United States 1903 Austrian Marine Flasher

Basic death data:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JT1K-Z68

United States Social Security Death Index

Name: Edith Schamest

Staat: New York

Letzter Wohnort: Pinellas, Florida

Postleitzahl des früheren Aufenthalts: 33707

Alter: 89

Geburtsdatum: 27 Oct 1902

Sterbedatum: 16 Nov 1991