Julius Glückauf

Ruhla, – Amsterdam,

Reached the age of 59 years

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Hanna Glückauf (geb. Rehfeld)

Hanna Glückauf (geb. Rehfeld) was murdered in 1943 in either Auschwitz or Sobibor. No record of her death has been found.

Hanna, my grandmother (d. Auschwitz or Sobibor, 1943), was the mother of Erich Glückauf (survivor, d. Berlin, 1977), Paul Glückauf (survivor – and my father, d. New York, 1951), Werner Glückauf (d. Auschwitz, 1942), and Ilse (Glückauf) Kratz (survivor, d. San Diego, CA, 2002).  Her husband, my grandfather Julius Glückauf, died of natural causes in Amsterdam in 1939.  

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