Jewish New Years card sent by the Fridling family in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp with photographs of their two children Joseph and Gitla.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 82081

Overview

Caption: Jewish New Years card sent by the Fridling family in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp with photographs of their two children Joseph and Gitla.
Date: September 1947
Locale: Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale: Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gail Fridling in memory of Abe and Ann Fridling

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

Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) JEWISH HOLIDAYS (ROSH HASHANAH) JEWS IN HIDING (AFTER THE EXPERIENCE) NEW YEAR'S CARDS PHOTOGRAPHS SCHLACHTENSEE
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- Duppel/Schlachtensee

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.