Lotte Freund

First name also as: Lotte, Carlota, Karlotta

She was a successful portrait photographer, and many Freund family photographs from the period are by her. She also knew, and possibly worked with, the commercial and fashion photographer Yva (Else Simon), as there are several portrait photographs of her parents by Yva.

25 Feb 1939 -- She is #5 on Spanish quota, along with Kurt’s family. However, she does not leave Berlin with them. My father never explains why, and may not have known.

[Her Barcelona birth explains Carlotta's quota card; previously, it was curious as to why she had the same number as her brother Kurt's family, whereas their mother Alice did not.]

1949 -- Gerald Freund going back to Berlin to search for Aunt Lotte. Finding a woman superintendant in building, who claimed she left with no forwarding address. Other tenant comes downstairs to say it's not true, she's lying. Lotte was put out during a roundup intentionally so she'd be picked up by the Nazis. No trace of her has ever been found.

“His [Kurt%E2%80%99s] sister [Lotte / Carlotta Freund] was younger. She became an excellent photographer and developed a small photography business during the inter-war period. But she never rose to any special heights as a photographer and she remained in Berlin when we left, when we emigrated.”

Official records show that she was deported to Auschwitz, although no record exists of her as a prisoner. It is likely she died during transport or was murdered immediately upon arrival.

Full Record Details for Freund Carlotta from yadvashem.org,and at the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, accessed by JGF at United Stated Holocaust Museum and Memorial, 22 Dec 2008.

Source    

Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945, Bundesarchiv (German National Archives), Koblenz 1986

Last Name    

FREUND

First Name    

CARLOTTA

Date of Birth    

1896

Place of Permanent Residence    

BERLIN,BERLIN,BERLIN,GERMANY

Place of Death    

AUSCHWITZ,CAMP

Victim's Status End WWII    

MISSING

Type of Material    

list of victims from Germany

Yad Vashem dbase listings:

http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9I?last_name...