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Date Posted: 16:23:48 02/20/16 Sat
Author: lucy lee (happy to find u)
Subject: Re: Searching for lost cousin in Berlin Kindertransport
In reply to: Chaya Blitzer Wassermann 's message, "Searching for lost cousin in Berlin Kindertransport" on 17:52:08 11/01/03 Sat

>My first cousin, Dina Wassermann, when she was a year
>old, was put up for "adoption" by her mother who was
>my aunt, Marie Wassermann (later married to Hermann
>Spicker), because of the threat of deportation to a
>concentration camp. My aunt Marie put her one year
>old baby (born approx. April, year--1938), in the
>spring of 1939, in the Jewish orphanage in Berlin
>called "Yudisches Sauglings Heim", located on
>Neidershon Hausen,Exergier Strasse, in Berlin. Then,
>she wrote to us (we had just emigrated to America) in
>1939 that she had given up her daughter for adoption
>to an English couple, as she told us, and we believe
>this may have been a kinder transport. At any rate,
>my first cousin, Dina Wassermann, is probably living
>in England, and may be searching for me. By the way,
>my grandparents lived at 52 Ryke Strasse, Berlin, and
>my mother's whole family was murdered in the
>Holocaust. Any information--would be greatly
>appreciated. Thanks.

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