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Louis Sander

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Empel nr Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death: September 11, 1968 (79)
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Josef Sander and Minna Sander
Husband of Hilde Sander; Erna Borower and Margaret Sander
Father of Marion Syktich and Norbert Sander
Brother of Max Sander

Managed by: Peter [John Peter] Lobbenberg
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Immediate Family

About Louis Sander

Please see S. Meen, https://judeninthemar.org/the-family-of-nathan-jonas-regine-franken...

  • Date/place of birth identified in Arolsen Archives, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Personal File, https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/7002974
  • Identified as son of Josef and Minna (née Gumpel) Sander, in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol. 2, (unpaginated)
  • Identified as husband of 1) Hilde (née Frankenberg) Sander, and 2) Erna (née Herzberg) Sander in S. Wolf.
  • Identified as father of Norbert and Marion Sander with Hilda Sander (née Frankenberge) in S. Wolf.
  • On 15 June 1938, Louis Sander was arrested in the Juni Action and imprisoned in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He was released on 12 December 1938; see Arolsen Archives, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Personal File, https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/7002974
  • Identified as husband of Erna Herzberg in various records in family archives. He was Erna's second husband.
  • In 1939, Louis Sandy emigrated from Germany to Shanghai with his wife, Erna (née Herzberg) Sander, and her parents, in 1939. Source: Themar Stadarchiv
  • Louis and Erna (née Herzberg) Sander ended their marriage at some time before 1946 in Shanghai.
  • On 12 October 1946, Louis Sander left Shanghai, sailing to San Francisco. The ship's manifest stated that he was "widowed" and identified his occupation as 'nurse'. See The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, California; NAI Number: 4498993; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85
  • Identified as husband of Margaret (née Brinitzer) Sander in https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98977779/louis-sander?
  • Date/place of death in FindaGrave entry cited above.
  • Stolpersteine were laid for Louis Sander and his two children, Marion and Norbert, in Themar in November 2019; see https://judeninthemar.org/2019/12/2019-stolpersteine-for-the-franke...
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Louis Sander's Timeline

1889
May 30, 1889
Empel nr Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1921
July 18, 1921
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1923
June 28, 1923
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1968
September 11, 1968
Age 79
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States