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Rita Kaplan

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I was born in Memmelsdorf, Germany on April 14, 1924 to Elizabeth Gruenbaum Goldstein (1898-1982) and Alfred Goldstein (1891-1985).

 

In 1935, the Nazis ordered my brother, parents and me to move from our home to Nuremberg where I was not allowed to go to public school.  I remember being called a dirty Jew and learned that a Christian friend was put into prison for socializing with us.

 

My maternal grandparents were sent to Theresienstadt where they were killed.  

 

After witnessing the terrible destruction of Kristallnacht, my parents arranged to send me to England on January 5, 1939 with a children’s transport.  Eight months later my parents, brother and I were reunited in the United States.

 

I am married to Everett Kaplan.  We have two children and twin granddaughters.