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Anja Schaul

Also Known As: "Anna", "Annie"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death: February 15, 1944 (6)
Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hans Schaul and Ruth Rewald

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About Anja Schaul

Anja Anna etc. SCHAUL: b. 16 May 1937, Paris - d. after 10 Feb 1944, Auschwitz, HOLOCAUST

Information courtesy of various sources, including the following:

cf. especially information on mother Ruth SCHAUL, née REWALD.

And significantly a wonderful website (only in French) focusing on her last years spent in France. This displays an incredible collection of family correspondence together with both very informative and extremely touching accounts and comments plus several poignant photos - especially of the little girl Anja ...

SCHAUL Ruth, Anja, [Hans] [148] – La Shoah dans l'arrondissement de Saint-Nazaire

https://shoahpresquile.com/2019/01/03/ruth-schaul-148/

Notably it is pointed out that, in fact, daughter Anja's father is NOT Hans SCHAUL but a good friend of his - Heinrich RAU.(German of Aryan heritage, likewise heavily engaged in Resistance etc. activities).

Heinrich Heiner RAU: b. 2 April 1899, Stuttgart-Feuerbach

Incarceration documents viewable courtesy of:

https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/1711575/?p=1&s=hei...

BUT Hans SCHAUL loved Anja as his own daughter ...

A letter sent to Ruth by her own father Arthur M. REWALD in London also refers to "Lotte" and her worry about her "two sisters in Vienna" from whom she hasn't heard for a long time ...

Herta NINGO is mentioned too here - though the surname incorrectly deciphered as "WINGO?" ...

Details of deportation and subsequent death courtesy of:

https://ressources.memorialdelashoah.org/notice.php?q=noms_tous%3A%...

Features actual Drancy deportation list - Convoi # 68

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Anja Schaul's Timeline

1937
May 16, 1937
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1944
February 15, 1944
Age 6
Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland