Search Notices
For members and others attempting to re-establish contact with friends or family members, the AJR Journal publishes, for a nominal fee, a regular column of search Notices.Authors, makers of film and television documentaries, researchers and research institutes, academics and students also place notices to request contact from survivors and refugees and invite testimony from members who witnessed the relevant events, as well as to obtain access to original documents, photographs, artefacts and records.
To place a search notice in the next available edition of the AJR Journal please email search@ajr.org.uk
Current search notices appear below.
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7 names beginning with D
Denmark - I am seeking survivors or relatives of persons born in Denmark or who had Danish citizenship and were persecuted in the Holocaust - in particular, women who married non-Danish husbands, lost their Danish citizenship and were deported from their homes outside Denmark. Am also interested in chalutsim with knowledge of the Der neue Weg group around Bertl Grass. Info pls
e-mail: silviagtarabini@hotmail.com
Deutsch (née Lauber), Lea - born November 1883 Tarnow. Married Emanuel Deutsch (1880-1938). In 1937-1940 her address was Köstlergasse 1/27, 1060 Vienna; in 1940-41 Dreihufeisengasse 3/8, 1060 Vienna. Deported to Riga December 1941. Info pls
e-mail: lilly.axster@gmx.at
Deutsch, Frieda - my aunt, married Albert Kende in Vienna. They left Vienna in 1936 with children Eleanore, Joseph and George for Neusatz (now Novi Sad). After the war, my father, who survived by leaving Vienna in 1938 for Rhodesia, could never find them. Information, please contact Peter Deutsch
e-mail: pld@perlynd.com
Dinger sisters Steffi, Trude and Elsa -
Dinger sisters Steffi, Trude and Elsa arrived in London from Vienna in 1938 and lived in north London. They joined Finsbury Park branch of Austrian Society. Each married: Steffi became Frocht, Trude became Spitz (later Spencer), Elsa became Mowbray. Any info on them or Steffi’s husband Uszer/Edi Frucht/Frocht pls.
e-mail: gaby.weiner@btinternet.com
Domestic servants in England - a historian, I am searching for people of Austrian or German origin who escaped to England from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and worked as domestic servants in English homes. Any info please
e-mail: search@ajr.org.uk
Duchesne, Michelle and/or brother -
Duchesne, Michelle and/or brother lived above family shop in Les Baux. Their mother was Jewish. Michelle possibly worked for underground with Donald and Marianne (Mano) Purslow, owners of Hotel de la Reine Jeanne. Donald and Mano fled France 1944. [AUG 08]
e-mail: heikef@yahoo.com
Dunkirk 1940 - Urgently seeking information about refugees fleeing Nazis who got caught up in evacuation of BEF from Dunkirk 26 May - 4 June 1940. Specifically (but not only) seeking information about Gertrud Kermisch from Vienna.
e-mail: search@ajr.org.uk