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JOHANNA GERECHTER NEUMANN

JOHANNA GERECHTER NEUMANN

(HAMBURG/GERMANY 1930)

ESCAPE REFUGE WITH MUSLIMS DP CAMP EMIGRATION

Escaped with her parents and other Jewish families to Albania in 1939

Finding refuge with a Muslim family

1945: Family went to Italy and lived in a Displaced Persons camp

Migrated to the United States with her mother in 1946

Father joined in 1947

“The family Pilku was honored by Yad Vashem in 1991.“

Johanna Gerechter Neumann died in 2017 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 06-16-2015