Very honored Mr Walter,
Some days ago I received your address from Mr Heinrich Hartogh, my uncle. I am a nephew of your earlier friend Mr Oskar Frank, or better of his wife Alice, born Hausmann, who together with your daughter, my cousin Lotte, was deported to Littmannstadt in Poland in the year 1941,42.
My aunt Alice was the youngest sister of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, who on June 6, 1942 was deported to Poland with my youngest brother. My dear grandmother, you probably know, endured the same fate about that time. Because I, despite of many investigations, could not know anything about none of my close relatives until today, I have to realize the terrible conviction that both my cousins, Mrs Irene Levy, born Hoexter and I are the only surviving members of our family. As much as I heard, you, very honored Mr Walter, are not able to give us any hope.
But I would be grateful if you would try to find out in Cologne what happened with the fortune of my grandmother. As I remember well, she lived for some years in her business house in the Roonstrasse 54, Cologne and later, until her deportation in a local home for elderly persons.
As much as I could learn, my grandmother was forced on December 9, 1941, to sell her business- and home in the Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse 6 in Worms, to a Mr Guckes for 61,000 Reichsmark, price reduced to 54,000RM, and after objection of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, on June 27, 1942, fixed on 58,000 RM. To the Finanzamt Cologne were paid 22,000 RM and to the Oberfinanzkasse in Cologne the 27,923 RM. Because this property some years before had an estimated value of 200,000 RM, I do not understand this at all and would be very glad if you could communicate me the following explanation:
--1) whether and how I can object against this forced sale, and
--2) how I can claim the mentioned amounts with the interests of the period between.
I want to mention here, that in the meantime, I became a British citizen in the Union of South Africa.
My grandmother, besides that, had a respectable part of her fortune in cash money, value papers and shares at the …
Very honored Mr Walter,
Some days ago I received your address from Mr Heinrich Hartogh, my uncle. I am a nephew of your earlier friend Mr Oskar Frank, or better of his wife Alice, born Hausmann, who together with your daughter, my cousin Lotte, was deported to Littmannstadt in Poland in the year 1941,42.
My aunt Alice was the youngest sister of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, who on June 6, 1942 was deported to Poland with my youngest brother. My dear grandmother, you probably know, endured the same fate about that time. Because I, despite of many investigations, could not know anything about none of my close relatives until today, I have to realize the terrible conviction that both my cousins, Mrs Irene Levy, born Hoexter and I are the only surviving members of our family. As much as I heard, you, very honored Mr Walter, are not able to give us any hope.
But I would be grateful if you would try to find out in Cologne what happened with the fortune of my grandmother. As I remember well, she lived for some years in her business house in the Roonstrasse 54, Cologne and later, until her deportation in a local home for elderly persons.
As much as I could learn, my grandmother was forced on December 9, 1941, to sell her business- and home in the Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse 6 in Worms, to a Mr Guckes for 61,000 Reichsmark, price reduced to 54,000RM, and after objection of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, on June 27, 1942, fixed on 58,000 RM. To the Finanzamt Cologne were paid 22,000 RM and to the Oberfinanzkasse in Cologne the 27,923 RM. Because this property some years before had an estimated value of 200,000 RM, I do not understand this at all and would be very glad if you could communicate me the following explanation:
--1) whether and how I can object against this forced sale, and
--2) how I can claim the mentioned amounts with the interests of the period between.
I want to mention here, that in the meantime, I became a British citizen in the Union of South Africa.
My grandmother, besides that, had a respectable part of her fortune in cash money, value papers and shares at the …
Very honored Mr Walter,
Some days ago I received your address from Mr Heinrich Hartogh, my uncle. I am a nephew of your earlier friend Mr Oskar Frank, or better of his wife Alice, born Hausmann, who together with your daughter, my cousin Lotte, was deported to Littmannstadt in Poland in the year 1941,42.
My aunt Alice was the youngest sister of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, who on June 6, 1942 was deported to Poland with my youngest brother. My dear grandmother, you probably know, endured the same fate about that time. Because I, despite of many investigations, could not know anything about none of my close relatives until today, I have to realize the terrible conviction that both my cousins, Mrs Irene Levy, born Hoexter and I are the only surviving members of our family. As much as I heard, you, very honored Mr Walter, are not able to give us any hope.
But I would be grateful if you would try to find out in Cologne what happened with the fortune of my grandmother. As I remember well, she lived for some years in her business house in the Roonstrasse 54, Cologne and later, until her deportation in a local home for elderly persons.
As much as I could learn, my grandmother was forced on December 9, 1941, to sell her business- and home in the Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse 6 in Worms, to a Mr Guckes for 61,000 Reichsmark, price reduced to 54,000RM, and after objection of my mother, Mrs Martha Schwab, born Hausmann, on June 27, 1942, fixed on 58,000 RM. To the Finanzamt Cologne were paid 22,000 RM and to the Oberfinanzkasse in Cologne the 27,923 RM. Because this property some years before had an estimated value of 200,000 RM, I do not understand this at all and would be very glad if you could communicate me the following explanation:
--1) whether and how I can object against this forced sale, and
--2) how I can claim the mentioned amounts with the interests of the period between.
I want to mention here, that in the meantime, I became a British citizen in the Union of South Africa.
My grandmother, besides that, had a respectable part of her fortune in cash money, value papers and shares at the …