Manfred/Fred Gates

Please see S. Meen, https://judeninthemar.org/the-family-of-itzig-amelie-gassenheimer/

• Birth date/place in Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line].
• Identified as son of Louis Gassenheimer and Helene Hirsch in Claims Index cited above.
• Manfred was known as "Fred".
• In the entry in the 1939 England and Wales Register for Manfred Gassenheimer, he is identified as married. (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/TNA_R...)
• In a document in the Arolsen Archives related to Fred's imprisonment in Buchenwald in November 1938, an "Inge G." is identified. https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/5926818. Inge Gassenheimer is entered in this profile as Manfred/Fred's first wife.
• In the Kristallpogromnacht of 9/10 November 1938, Fred Gassenheimer was rounded up with his father Louis (and other men in Hildburghausen) and imprisoned in Buchenwald KZ. He was released on 27 November 1938.
• Manfred Gassenheimer was able to escape Nazi Germany before WWII began; see The National Archives; Kew, London, England; HO 396 WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939-1947; Reference Number: HO 396/174. (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/131436:61665) He was declared exempt from internment in November 1939.
• Manfred was rounded up by the British in June 1940 and interned; according to the document in the UK, World War II Alien Internees Index, he was released "as a special case" on 8 February 1941.
• Fred Gassenheimer's first wife, Ingeborg, was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26 February 1943 and murdered.
• Identified as husband of Edel Thuesen, whom he married in 1948 in London/Eng, in General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 5d; Page: 1525 (Ancestry.com)
• On 12 June 1948, Manfred and Edel Gates sailed from Liverpool to the USA, planning to join relatives in Alameda, California; see Year: 1948; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 5; Page Number: 263 (Ancestry.com)
• In the 1950 Census, they are registered as living with Helene Gassenheimer, Manfred's mother, who had survived Theresienstadt Ghetto.
• Death date/place in Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File (Ancestry.com)