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Adults and children celebrate in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [This is possibly Joseph Fridling's fifth birthday party.]

Photograph | Photograph Number: 82075
Adults and children celebrate in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [This is possibly Joseph Fridling's fifth birthday party.] Among those pictured are standing in the back row (left to right) Abe Fridling (cousin of donor's father with the same name), unidentified, Andzia (Chana) Fridling, Gitla Fridling, Abe Fridling, Joseph Fridling and Zach Altman (far right).

Adults and children celebrate in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [This is possibly Joseph Fridling's fifth birthday party.]

Among those pictured are standing in the back row (left to right) Abe Fridling (cousin of donor's father with the same name), unidentified, Andzia (Chana) Fridling, Gitla Fridling, Abe Fridling, Joseph Fridling and Zach Altman (far right).

Date
March 1947?
Locale
Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale
Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- Duppel/Schlachtensee
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gail Fridling in memory of Abe and Ann Fridling

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Biography
Gail (originally Gitla) Fridling is the daughter of Abe (Avram Aba Itzak Noah) Fridling (12/271917 in Chelm) and Ann (Chana, Andzia) Altman Fridling (b. 3/16/1917, in Klwow (in Opoczino Province). Gitla was born in Lodz on October 18, 1944. Her older brother Joseph Zev was born March 9, 1942. Abe worked as a furrier in Lodz before the war. The entire family survived together in hiding. After the war, they moved to the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin. During the blockade of Berlin, the family was airlifted to Landsberg in August 1948. They stayed there for a year before immigrating to the United States aboard the marine transport the General Haan. After arriving in the States they first lived in Vineland, NJ where Gail’s parents owned a poultry farm. Her two younger brothers David and Barry were born in Vineland. In 1965 Abe and Ann moved to Washington. Though Gail and her immediate family survived the Holocaust, all four of Gail’s grandparents Bella and Zev Fridling and Esther Leah and Avrahm David Altman perished, as well as two great grandmothers Ruchel Fajiel and Shava Fridling and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Gail Fridling in memory of Abe and Ann Fridling
Source Record ID: Collections: 2015.411.1
 
Record last modified: 2015-06-08 00:00:00
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