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Personalized Jewish New Years card sent by Fela and Natan Gipsman, a Jewish DP couple living in Stuttgart, Germany.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 36518
Personalized Jewish New Years card sent by Fela and Natan Gipsman, a Jewish DP couple living in Stuttgart, Germany. The card is decorated with a map of Israel and a boat labeled with the Hebrew word for Israel, a reference to the newly declared independant State of Israel.

Personalized Jewish New Years card sent by Fela and Natan Gipsman, a Jewish DP couple living in Stuttgart, Germany.

The card is decorated with a map of Israel and a boat labeled with the Hebrew word for Israel, a reference to the newly declared independant State of Israel.

Date
September 1948
Locale
Stuttgart, [Wuerttemberg] Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Stuttgart
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fela and Natan Gipsman

About This Photograph

Biography
Natan Gipsman is the son of Izak and Chaja Gitla Gipsman. He was born in January 1925, in Bedzin, Poland, where his parents owned a store. Natan had a younger sister, Maniusia (b.1930). The family lived at 3 Sienkiewicza Street, where they remained during the early years of the German occupation. In 1942, Natan's father was deported to a labor camp in Germany. A year later, Natan was sent to Sackenhoym, a subcamp of the Blechhammer concentration camp. After nearly two years in Sachenhoym, he was transferred to Blechhammer in April 1944. In January 1945, Natan began a long series of transfers from one concentration camp to another that included stays in Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schoenebeck (a satellite camp of Buchenwald). During the evacuation of Schoenebeck, he escaped and went into hiding until his liberation by the Red Army on May 8, 1945. Natan's mother and sister were deported to the Auschwitz death camp, where they perished. His father survived. After the war Natan moved to the Fuerth displaced persons camp, and in January 1946, to a DP camp in Stuttgart. There he met Fela Fiszel, a fellow Jewish survivor from Bedzin. They were married on March 29, 1947 in Munich. Two years later, the Gipsmans immigrated to the U.S. aboard the SS Marine Falcon.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Fela and Natan Gipsman
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-25 00:00:00
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