Jewish Families from Berlin-Weissensee, Germany

Isaak enjoyed the fruits of Jewish integration into German culture, rising from shtetl roots in Preus. Stargardt to make a success as a mill owner in Elbing and later to co-own with his brother Julius ...

Betty stayed behind in Berlin in September 1938 when her daughter Elly and 13-year-old granddaughter Helga (my mother) fled across the Belgian border. Betty suffered all the degradations of the Nazi pe...