In the beginning of the thirties my mother lived in Berlin Dahlem. She attended the Volksschule Lansstraße (?) in this quarter. Looking at two atmospheric pictures from her photo album I wondered what might have happened to her Jewish school mates, Martha Esther Hirschberg and her brother Walter Joseph (“Seppl”) Hirschberg. The photo was labeled “Mit Martha und Seppl Hirschberg Juli 1931” (“With Martha and Seppl Hirschberg July 1931”).
Looking on MyHeritage I got to know to my relief that both had survived World War II and the Shoah: Martha Esther Hirschberg died in 1979 and Walter Joseph Hirschberg in 1998. Apparently, Walter Joseph Hirschberg emigrated to San Diego. It would be nice to gain more information on both and the school they attended. I would be happy to send my photos to relatives of the Hirschberg siblings.
Siehe auch -- see also
English -- Seppel (Joseph) Walter & Martha Esther Hirschberg
Deutsch -- Seppel (Joseph) Walter & Martha Esther Hirschberg
English -- Whereabouts of Lilli Cassel
Deutsch -- Hintergründe zu Lilli Cassel
English -- Class mates on an excursion / List of all class mates
Deutsch -- Klassenfoto vom Ausflug / Liste aus Fotoalbum
I came across this photo looking for Martha Hirschberg (Jacoby) and her son Walter T. Hirschberg, my husband’s grandfather. Two of these children look so astoundingly like my husband and sister in law that when she saw it she thought it was a picture of him/them. The Martha and Walter pictured are slightly younger than my husband’s mother, born in Berlin, in1920. Other family forenames do not match this pair’s family tree, but there must be a genetic link in the more distant past.