[CLI_Part_22] 132182325 Helga Klau

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Helga KLAU

#germany POB: Frankfurt a/M
#holland POR
#jew
#female (not male)

Helga Eliel (Klau) (1921 - 1998) - Genealogy (geni.com)

Ursula Klau (1932-2007) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to lawyer Dr. Oscar (Oskar) Klau (1889-1944) and Therese (Resa) Klau-Altheimer (1896-1945). Her older sister was Helga Simon (1921-1998). In 1934 the family fled to Switzerland. They returned to Germany in 1935 so that Dr. Klau could liquidate his business before the family relocated to Amsterdam in 1936. Helga was sent to the Westerbork transit camp in July 1942. Ursula and her parents were sent to Westerbork in March 1943 and then deported to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944 where Oscar Klau died in the spring. In early April 1945, as the Allies advanced on Bergen-Belsen, Klau and her mother were loaded onto a transport for Theresienstadt which was abandoned near Tröbitz as the Red Army advanced. Therese died of typhus on May 7, 1945 in Schilda, where Klau remained under quarantine until August 1945. Klau was transferred to Maastricht and diagnosed with tuberculosis. Klau’s family in the United States and Switzerland arranged for her to be moved to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland in early 1946, and she immigrated to the United States in November 1946 where she lived in New York under the guardianship of her cousin Adolf (Adi) John Elkeles.

Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org)

https://archief.amsterdam/indexen/deeds/985333f9-cf5b-56a3-e053-b784100ade19?person=985333f9-cf5c-56a3-e053-b784100ade19

Fate relatives:
https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/189568/oskar-siegfried-klau