[Auswandererkartei Bremen (International Refugee Organization-Kartei)] do_bHue7wYBpVbcSXEDa2b47

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Julia FEUERSTEIN

Julia FEUERSTEIN *08.10.1922

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Julia Feuerstein née Witnitzer/Firestone (surname adopted after emigration to the USA)

Story:

USHMM Finding Aid

Clara and Azriel (Yacob) Wiznitzer of Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine) had five children: Rose (Ruzhia), Frieda (Frima/Vishka), Julia (Yula, 1922‐2012), Rachel (Ginia), and Abraham (Bumek, 1933‐ ). Following the German occupation, Clara and Azriel were arrested, Rose and her husband were killed by Ukrainian nationalists in January 1942, and Frieda, Julia, Rachel, and Abraham were forced into the ghetto in March 1942. Rachel was arrested smuggling beets into the ghetto, and Frieda was arrested after escaping with false papers. In early 1943, Julia’s boyfriend, Pavel Wermuth, arranged for her to hide with him at the home of his parents’ former maid, Frania Palyga, but Pavel was arrested and killed. Palyga hid Julia and her brother Abe until the Red Army liberated Kołomyja in the spring of 1944. Upon emerging from hiding, they met fellow survivor Edward Feuerstein (1905‐1999), whose wife and three children were murdered during the Holocaust. They stayed in Kołomyja until December 1944, when the Soviet authorities allowed them to travel west into Poland. They temporarily settled in Wrocław, but news of the Kielce pogrom in July 1946 spurred them to leave Poland for Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Edward and Julia were married; they claimed that they originated from Breslau before the war, giving them a right to be included in the German quota for the needs of obtaining the US visa. In addition they registered Abe as Edward’s son from a previous marriage and Julia’s stepson – all that to simplify the process of the immigration the US. Edward, Julia, and Abe immigrated to the United States in 1947 with Edward and Julia’s baby daughter Miriam (Mary) and changed their last name to Firestone

She died in 2012:

Julia Firestone Obituary - North Lauderdale, FL (dignitymemorial.com)

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Um Vergebung, mon cœur, lost in the centuries? You meant 2012?
Abrazos
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I’ve managed to let her die before she was born… a real performance! Thank you Great Helmsman!
Liebe Grüße, Seeraüber Jenny

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