Gabrielle Greenberg collection 1908-2012 Bulk dates: 1943-1946

The focus of this collection lies on the correspondence between Lily Lösser and her daughters Yutta (Judy) and Gaby (Gabrielle) during their time of separation 1943-1946. The rest of the collection is made up of personal albums, official correspondence, documents and other material.digitizedLilli (also: Lily) Lösser (also: Losser), née Haymann, was born on February 21, 1905, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, the daughter of Samuel and Julie Haymann, née Rosenbusch. Lily was married to Hugo Lösser and their first daughter, Jutta (later; Judy) was born on June 29, 1932, in Essen, Germany. In 1933 the family left Germany for Lisbon, Portugal, where Hugo worked with the chocolate manufacturer "Favorita". Lily worked at an international aid committee for Jewish refugees. On August 20, 1935, their second daughter, Gabriela (also: Gabrielle) was born. Hugo Lösser died in 1937.In January 1943 Lily sent her daughters, aged seven and ten, to the United States, where they lived with the Steinhart family. Lily joined them in early 1946. Judy got married to Mannie Honig in 1953 and moved to Miami, Florida, where she died on July 17, 1989. Gaby married Jerry Greenberg in 1962 and lived in New York. Lily married Morris Besso, who died in 1968; she then retired to Florida, where she died in Miami on August 8, 1988.Else Davidson, née Lösser, was Hugo Lösser’s sister. She was the daughter of Gustav and Martha Lösser. Else was married to Martin Davidson, and they had two daughters, Ruth and Gerda, who were nine and five years old in 1935, when the family departed to Lisbon, Portugal. In 1943, the parents sent their younger daughter Gerda to the United States; her sister Ruth stayed with her parents in Portugal until their immigration to New York in 1946. While in Lisbon, Ruth graduated from the Lyzeum (high school), after which she worked at the refugee aid organization HICEM. In 1955 Ruth married Adolfo de Carvalho, returning to Portugal with him in 1985.Processe