Margot Levi (later Weinshenk) and her brother Walter (left) dressed in opposite gender traditional costumes, probably taken at the Hotel Waldlust in Freudenstadt on the occasion of their grandfather Josef's birthday.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23890

Date: December 1923
Locale: Freudenstadt, [Baden-Wuerttemberg] Germany
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Germany (pre-1933) -- Family/Friends/Portraits
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Carol Weinschenk Opton

Biography: Margot (nee Levi) Weinschenk (1912-1996) was born in Stuttgart, Germany to Nellie (nee Strauss; b. 1888) and Max Levi (b. 1886). She had one brother, Walter (1915-1945). She married Paul Weinschenk in 1929. Paul Weinschenk (1909-1986) was born to Gisela (nee Sundheimer; 1880-1980) and brewer Julius Weinschenk (1876-1930) in Nuremberg, Germany. He had one sister, Lilly (1904-1986), who married Sigmund Karl Kohnstamm. Both families left Germany in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States and England. Margot and Paul settled in New York, and Max, Nellie, and Walter settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lilly, Sigmund, and Gisela immigrated to England. Max, Nellie, and Walter Levi would later change their last name to Lane. Walter joined the United States Army, and was killed in action in 1945.
Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS)
CHILDREN/YOUTH
FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH)
JEWS (GERMAN)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Carol Weinschenk Opton

Second Provenance: Joseph J. Vlasto

Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.508.1
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