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March 27, 2012

Benjamin, Jacques, and Odette Emram Identified

Odette Emram was born in Marseille on September 22, 1936. She had four brothers: Martin Albert, the eldest, born in 1924; Sabim, called "Sauveur," born in 1925; Benjamin in 1929; and Jacques in 1934. Their father, Isaac Emram, was born in 1892 in Salonica, Greece, and their mother, Rebecca Levy, in Constantinople in 1902. Odette was ten years old in this photo. Jacques was 12 and Benjamin was 17. Odette remembers that the photo was taken in Marseille, and she has a copy of it at home. She once saw it in an exhibition in Marseille of World War II artifacts.

March 21, 2012

Paul and Micheline Rak Identified

Because some things are too painful to remember, neither Paul Rak nor his sister, Micheline, recalls some aspects of their lives under the Occupation in France. For this reason, they have no particular recollection of their photos being taken but believe they were taken no later than 1945 or 1946.

March 14, 2012

Marinette, Liliane, Daniel, Josiane, and Jacqueline Miszputen Identified

When he saw the photograph of himself as a young boy, Daniel Miszputen was surprised and overcome with emotion. The only photo he knew was one of his sister Josiane. The Remember Me? site features photos of five of six Miszputen children: twin sisters Marinette and Liliane (born on August 30, 1936, at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in the 12^tharrondissement of Paris), Daniel (born on April 19, 1939), Josiane (born on May 1, 1942, and pictured on this page), and Jacqueline (born on October 8,1932, in the 10^tharrondissement). An older brother, Mojzesc (later called Maurice), was born on November 2, 1928, in Warsaw, Poland.

March 7, 2012

Bruno Meier Identified

Bernard Meier and his wife, Fran, have seen this photo of Bernard’s father, Bruno, before. They first learned of its existence when Fran’s brother found it about six to eight years ago. Bruno died of an aneurysm in July 1955. Bernard’s mother, Sylvia, would occasionally speak of her late husband, but it was often too painful for her. Bernard and Fran have done some research on Bruno’s life and spoke with us about what they know.

February 26, 2012

Abram Warszaw Identified

Abraham Warszaw, now Alec Ward, was born in Parysow, Poland, in March 1927 to Szmul and Ester (née Dudkiewicz). Szmul was a glazier of windows and left Parysow shortly after Abraham was born to find work in Laskowa. The family finally settled in Magnuszew, where Szmul found work. Ester was a seamstress. She died in Magnuszew during childbirth in 1936. Abraham’s father, Szmul, remarried, and his new wife, Sara Bronstein, was very kind to Abraham; his sister, Lea; and his brothers, Lajb, Meylach, and Hershel.

February 14, 2012

Aime Levinsky Identified

Ami (Emanuel) Levinsky-Kaufman found out about the Remember Me? project through a CBS News story he saw on TV. He then discovered what he thought was his picture on the Remember Me? site under the name “Aimre Levisky.” As a child he was nicknamed Aime, so he thought that his name had been misspelled. At first Ami didn’t know what to make of finding the photo, but then he started digging in his files of old photographs taken in Israel after the war. He compared those photos with the Remember Me? picture and was certain the photo was of him. He was pleasantly surprised because this was the first photograph he had seen of himself in France. Ami has very few memories of his childhood, but he was able to share with us what he learned thanks to research that Catherine Thion at the Centre d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Camps d'Internement du Loiret (CERCIL) had conducted for him a few years ago.

February 1, 2012

Jacques, Salomon, and Robert Roumi Identified

Jacques Roumi was born on December 7, 1930, in Paris. His brother Salomon was born on May 1, 1934, in Paris and his youngest brother, Robert, was born in October 28, 1938, in Paris. Photographs of all three of them are on our website.

January 24, 2012

Wlodek Sztykgold Identified

Wlodek Sztykgold learned about Remember Me? from friends who saw an article about it in the Israeli women’s magazine La-Ishah.

January 17, 2012

Eugenius Kamer Identified

Eugene Kamer was born in Kraków on June 9, 1930, to Abraham David “Romek” Kamer and Anna (née Metzendorf) Kamer. Much of the information about Eugene’s wartime experiences described below is paraphrased from his unpublished memoir.

January 10, 2012

Tibor Munkácsy Identified

Now known as Tibor Sands, this survivor is very familiar with his photograph. It was used for his passport to go to England, and he still has a copy of it. This photo was very helpful in reuniting Tibor with family members, but not in a way that would be expected. When his photo was taken at Kloster Indersdorf, Tibor mentioned to the American photographer, Curt Riess, that his older brother lived in New York. The photographer laughed until Tibor told him his brother’s name. Riess knew Tibor’s brother, Martin Munkácsi, a prominent photographer who had worked for Harper’s Bazaar. Riess helped Lillian Robbins, a UNRRA official at Kloster Indersdorf, get in touch with Martin on Tibor’s behalf.

January 5, 2012

Madeleine Modern Identified

“Ah, that is me!” said Madeleine Modern when she discovered her photograph thanks to her nephew (her brother’s son) who is interested in genealogy research. She was very surprised and needed some time to understand how her photograph suddenly ended up on the Museum’s website. Then, a flow of questions arose, and she said she thought the Remember Me? project was excellent because it makes history alive again, but through children’s eyes. She added that this was a beautiful initiative that needs to be pursued.

December 20, 2011

Henri Szapiro Identified

Ronnie Goldstein had never seen this photograph of her late husband, Henry Shapiro, before coming across it on the Remember Me? website. The photograph brought out a mix of emotions in her. She smiled at how cute he was as a boy, but at the same time she felt sad about what he had been through and what he had lost during the Holocaust. She remembers Henry as a kind person and a great guy. He had an upbeat personality and everyone loved him. Nevertheless, he was haunted by what he saw and heard as a child.

December 13, 2011

Jacques Karpman Identified

Jacques Karpman–Boutet was born in Paris in 1932 to Max and Marie Karpman. His sister, Suzanne Cohen, also a child survivor, had seen Jacques’s photo before and has a copy of it in her files. She doesn’t remember when it was taken but believes that it was while they were in an orphanage operated by members of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) in Paris.

December 4, 2011

Pierre-Jacques Rojtman Identified

Pierre-Jacques Rojtman died on April 11, 2002. His second daughter, Nina Rojtman, was filled with emotion when she first saw his picture on the Remember Me? website. Until seeing the picture here, she had not even known of its existence. Nina kindly shared with us some information about her father’s life.

November 30, 2011

World Memory Project helps survivors and their families fill in missing chapters

Many people who have helped us identify the children on the Remember Me? site have asked what else they can do to assist Holocaust survivors and their families. The World Memory Project, a partnership between the Museum and Ancestry.com, offers another way to help.

November 29, 2011

Jadwiga Schulikowska Identified

Jadwiga Schulikowska (Szulikowska in Polish) was born in Munich on January 9, 1945. Her German birth certificate listed her name as Halina Jadwiga Schulikowska. Known by friends and family as Jadzia, she passed away on August 15, 2011. A week or so after her death, her daughter Anna Otremba, who lives in the United Kingdom, Googled her mother’s name and found the Remember Me? website. Anna had seen this photograph before and was eager to tell us what she could about her mother. Anna travelled to her native Poland to see her father, and the two of them pieced together what they could about Jadzia’s early life.

November 16, 2011

Danielle Simenow, Monique Simenow, and Sarah Warech Identified

Danielle was recognized by a member of the French association Convoi 6 who gave us her contact information. When we called her, she was surprised and moved to see her photograph on the site. She said she could not believe that her photograph ended up in the United States. Her children had never seen this photo of their mother before. After our first e-mail exchange, Danielle spent more time looking at the “Remember Me?” site and recognized her sister, Monique, and two cousins, Sarah Warech and Henri Gotainer. She still has a photograph of all four of them together that was taken in 1946 in Denain, France.

November 8, 2011

Georgette Ickowicz Identified

Georgette Ickowicz found out about the "Remember Me?" project from her friend Celine Jelen, whose picture is also featured on the site. She was surprised and very excited to find her picture and that of her brother, Bernard, among the children. Her family members were also excited to see the pictures. Georgette has the original photograph of herself as a child, which she thinks was taken at the kindergarten she attended in Paris when she was about five or six years old.

October 25, 2011

Bernard Rotmil Identified

Charles Rotmil identified the child in this photograph as his older brother, Bernard, who passed away at the age of 84 on June 19, 2010. Bernard and Charles were hidden during the war by the now-famous Father Bruno Reynders, who hid nearly 400 children. Charles was struck by the anonymity of the nameless photograph and the loss of memory. He remarked that time is running out to tell these stories. Charles recently shared details about the brothers’ intertwined wartime stories.

October 18, 2011

Salomon Goldberg Identified

This photograph of Salomon Goldberg was taken in December 1945 at the home for Jewish children at Wezembeek, during the second of his two stays there.

October 10, 2011

Alberto, Franco, Isacco, Luciano, and Maria Di Cori Identified

Ester Di Cori, who lives in Montreal, learned about the Remember Me? site when one of her cousins Googled her own father’s name and found the pictures of Ester’s father, Luciano Di Cori; his brothers, Franco, Isacco, and Alberto; and his sister, Maria. All of Ester Di Cori’s pictures of her father, Luciano, are from when he was a young adult or older. She had never seen a photo of her father as a child before and was shocked to see how much her son resembles him. Ester shared with us what she knows from her uncles and aunts about the pictures and the family’s life during and after the Holocaust.

October 3, 2011

Berthe Camhi Identified

Betty Levy was born Berthe Camhi in 1937 in Marseille, France. Betty’s mother, Lea (née Alian) Camhi, had gone to Marseille from Turkey in the early 1930s. She married and had a son. Tragically, her first husband died in a work-related accident, and she also lost her child. Lea met Betty’s father, Salomon Camhi, through mutual friends, and they married in 1936. Salomon was originally from Salonika, and he, too, had been married once before and had two daughters.

September 27, 2011

Lazar Kleinman Identified

Leslie Kleinman, formerly Lazar Kleinman, was born in 1929 to Martin (Mordka) and Rosa, Hasidic Jews who lived in the small village of Ombod in Romania, near Satu Mare. Martin was a rabbi and Hebrew teacher in Ombod. Leslie had seven siblings: Gitta, Herman, Olga, Irene, Ilonka (Chaia Sara), Abram, and Moshe. Leslie was the second eldest of his siblings. He had indeed seen this photo before. He knew it had been taken in the postwar era at the Kloster Indersdorf displaced persons camp. In July 2011 Leslie returned to Indersdorf, Germany, to attend the annual reunion, organized by Anna Andlauer, of child survivors who lived there.

September 14, 2011

Betty Kichelmacher Identified

Betty Kichelmacher passed away in Brussels on March 5, 2011. Her late cousin Yehuda Liftman’s wife, Edna Liftman, recently shared with us a bit about Betty’s life.

September 12, 2011

Yaksil Chaim Lewit Identified

The child in this photo is believed to be Yaksil Chaim Lewit. His daughter, Daisy Ann Lewit, received an e-mail about the Remember Me? project because she is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She decided to take a closer look at the photographs and was surprised to recognize her father as one of the nameless child survivors. Daisy Ann recounted that seeing the photograph “was like a punch in the stomach.” She had never seen a photograph of her father that young, let alone a photograph of him with such a genuine smile.

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