Bernhard Klugmann

JUDITH Kloogman Weinstein of New York has spent four year searching for information on her father's cousin, Bernhard Klugmann.

He was born in 1898 in Sniatyn, Galicia. He lived in Graz, Austria from about 1919 until 1938 or 1939 when he returned to Sniatyn.

He married Fanny Halberg in 1922 in Bistriz, Romania, and in 1923 their daughter Henriette (aka Naomi) was born in Graz.

Bernhard was a merchant of buttons and fabric. From 1922-31 the family lived in Graz on Rosselmuhlgasse, from 1931-37 they lived on Elizabethstrasse, before moving to Volksgartenstrasse.

Bernhard was detained by the Soviets in 1940 after returning to Sniatyn.

Somehow he made his way to London, where he registered with the Jewish Refugees Committee in June 1942. His wife and daughter died in the Holocaust.

The Jewish Refugees Committee has only his registration slip, not his file, which states that he served with the Military Government of the British Army of the Rhine at the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp, Group 5 MB 37/15. It also states that he left the UK for America in February 1948.

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