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Selma Silberberg - Levie

Selma Levie was the mother of Hello Silberberg, a friend van Anne Frank.

Person

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Selma Silberberg - Levie
  • Gelsenkirchen, Duitsland July 18, 1902
  • Unknown

Selma en Leo Silberberg met hun zoontje Helmut, rond 1930

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

Status onduidelijk

Selma Silberberg-Levie was the mother of Helmut Silberberg (Hello),[1] who was a friend friends of Anne Frank. Selma Levie was a daughter of Dutch parents. However, her father had become a naturalised citizen of Germany in 1921.[2] Selma Levie went to a Jewish school in Gelsenkirchen, which is where her son Helmut also went. She married Leo Silberberg at the age of 21, and had one son.[3] When she tried to escape to Belgium after the November progrom, she was arrested and locked up for ten days in Cologne. A second attempt to escape was successful. [4]

Source personal data.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to her as: (one of) his parents. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 1 July 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Handelingen Tweede Kamer 1948-1949. Kamerstuknummer 1269, ondernummer 3.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenverhalen 2012: Interview E. Silberberg.
  4. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Silberberg: Interview E. Silverberg, 14 juni 1993, Band I kant I (transcriptie, 1-2).
  5. ^ Spuren im Vest - Juden im Vest Recklinghausen: Silberberg Helmut.