This is Charlie, Lily and her husband Isidor Schwarz in Bratislava (now the Czech Republic) in 1946.
During this time, Lily took Charlie to ski in the Tatra mountains (according to Wikipedia, these form the border between Poland and today's Slovakia). Here is the picture:
What to me is truly amazing, and very moving, is that all the youngsters in this photo are survivors of the camps.
Charlie's father's side of the family had a lot of different experiences during the war years. One sister traveled through Russia and wound up in Shanghai. Other family members wound up in Siberia, fighting with the Czech army in exile, ultimately landing in Australia and Israel. I'm hoping that Alice will capture these someday and we'll add them to the blog. They aren't directly Hochbaum-related, but they are close enough.
Lily Green and Regina seem to have been close friends. The following photographs are from Regina's album:
On the back, it says "Dem Bilde ein freundlicher Blick, dem Original ein stets gedenken." And it is signed Leonie Grun (with the umlaut), Beuthen 10/VII - 36 (July 10, 1936).
My (very) rough translation -- courtesy of Google translate -- is "View this picture in a friendly way. Always remember the original."
Here's a picture from Lily in 1942, and her wedding picture below, labeled May 23, 1943.
This is interesting and raises some questions. We didn't really know the details of what happened to Charlie after the war. I had imagined that he was in a displaced persons camp until he came to the US.
ReplyDeleteEsme thinks he came to live with you after she was born in 1947. So the questions are:
What were the circumstances of his being freed from the Nazi's?
How did he spend those two years?
How did Lilli Green and her husband survive the war?
How did she find Charlie?
Since he had family in Europe, why did he decide to come to the US instead of staying in Czechoslovakia?