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Elly Wohlgemuth

Married surname: Ringel

A cultured and affluent Berlin Jewish widow who escaped from Europe with her teenage daughter, Helga. Elly remade a life as an emigre New Yorker—but it could never replace what had been left behind. 

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Escape from Berlin—last good chance to get out

Lisbon to New York—with a detour to Havana

Motives for mercy—the consuls of Toulouse

Our family during the Nazi years in Berlin

The Ringels in Berlin—time of prosperity

The Wohlgemuths in Danzig

The Wohlgemuths on the Woelckpromenade

A milliner's daughter in Long Beach

Paechter diaspora

Life in Nice—our personal Sitzkrieg
  • 2021-08-12
Antwerp reunion and onward to France
  • 2021-08-12
Across the Siegfried Line
  • 2021-08-12
Sisters had differing results in love
  • 2021-08-11
Helga found a mentor at Julia Richman High School
  • 2021-08-11
Seaside escape from the sweltering city
  • 2021-08-11
Departing Berlin as if for a weekend trip
  • 2021-08-07
Marienbad "holiday"
  • 2021-08-01
Ringel photo animations
  • 2021-03-04
Lovely portraits of Elly
  • 2020-12-25

Person Data

Branch
Ringel, Wohlgemuth
Generation
0G
Gender
Female

Relationships

Father
Isaak Wohlgemuth
Mother
Betty Katz
Sister
Hilda Wohlgemuth
Husband
Hermann Ringel
Daughter
Helga Ringel

Milestones

Birth
June 3, 1900

Elblag
Poland

Marriage
April 20, 1922

Berlin
Germany

Death
October 4, 1981

Santa Clara, CA
United States

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