Greta and Fred Burg papers

Manfred Burg (Fred, 1922-2014) was born in Vienna, Austria to Leo (b. 1889) and Franni (b. 1891) Burg. He had one brother, Paul. Fred fled to England on a Kindertransport after the German annexation of Vienna in 1938. By 1940 Fred had immigrated to Sosúa, Dominican Republic. His father was deported from Vienna by 1940 to Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine). His parents and brother perished during the Holocaust. He married Greta Neumann while in Sosúa, and they immigrated to the United States in 1948.

Greta Burg (née Neumann, 1928-1993) was born in Vienna, Austria to Hildegard (née Steiner, 1897-1982) and Jechiel David Neumann (1896-1964). She had one sister, Erica (b. 1931). Jechiel was a World War I veteran. In 1934, after Jechiel lost his job due to anti-Semitism, the family moved to Milan, Italy. After the German annexation of Vienna in 1938, the family decided they needed to emigrate from Europe. They went to Switzerland in October 1938 shortly before their visas were to expire. Jeichel then went to France and joined the French Foreign Legion. In 1941 Greta and her mother and sister emigrated from Milan to the Dominican Republic where they were reunited with her father in Sosúa. Greta met and married Fred while in Sosúa, and they immigrated to the United States in 1948.