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Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld

Male 1899 - 1974  (74 years)


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  • Name Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld 
    Birth 27 Oct 1899  Würzburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1974 
    Notes 
    • Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld (1899-1974) was born on 27 October 1899 in Würzburg, Germany to Alfred (1866-1936) and Jenny (née Brauer, 1866-1938) Riesenfeld. He had two sisters, Betti (later Betty Suessmann, 1896-1976) and Margot (1895-1943), and one brother, Walter (1901-1984).

      Frieda Therese Riesenfeld (née Schwabacher, 1908-2012) was born on 16 April 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Emil (1873-1919) and Dora (née Schwabacher, 1881-1943) Schwabacher. She had one sister, Henny (1906-1918).

      Bruno and Frieda married in 1931, and their first son, Ernst, was born in 1935. Bruno owned a paint factory in Heidingsfeld, near Würzburg. In 1938, he was forced to sell his business and then arrested. Frieda helped secure his release, but he was arrested again several months later and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, they left Germany to go stay with Bruno's sister Margot in Amsterdam while they continued to wait for U.S. visas. Their son, James was born 17 April 1939 in Amsterdam. On 14 March 1940 the family sailed out of Rotterdam for the United States on the Veendam. They settled in New York.

      Bruno's sister Margot perished during the Holocaust at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. Frieda's mother Dora was deported from Würzburg to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 where she perished.

      The Riesenfeld family papers are kept at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and can be viewed here:
      https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84900#?rsc=122532&cv=0&c=0&m=0&s=0&xywh=-524579%2C-73%2C1050911%2C1455
    Person ID I59  Flack Genealogy | Riesenfeld family
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2023 

    Father Alfred Riesenfeld,   b. 1866   d. 1936 (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Jenny Brauer,   b. 1866   d. 1938 (Age 72 years) 
    Family ID F385  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife Frieda Therese Schwabacher,   b. 16 Apr 1908, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2012 (Age 103 years) 
    Marriage 1931 
    Children 
    +1. James Riesenfeld
     2. Ernst Riesenfeld,   b. 1935   d. 2023 (Age 88 years)
    Family ID F382  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Nov 2023 

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