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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Thursday 11 February 10 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
Pete-
I sent a copy of the blow up to "scrimnet" but I couldn't get it through to you.  I have his direct e-mail address.  Don't know if my first mail went  through . Jewishgen  has nothing for us.  Have scoured their records for years.

Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Thursday 11 February 10 12:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Colin-

The picture  she sent to my aunt, here in the states,  was signed on the back  --"to my dear aunt from Eva and husband".    This was the only niece my aunt had  that lived in Europe  and  the picture came from Europe.  My aunt had received one post from her brother in the  late 1930s , saying that things were very bad in Poland and all over Europe for that matter.  He also said that   work was impossible to find and food was scarce.   He also mentioned his family  was having a really hard time of it. 

He and his wife were a bit older , in their forties when Eva was born, so it was probably doubly difficult for them with a young girl  to take care of. 
That's why we   have the feeling that she might have been given to a non-Jewish family  so that she could find a safe haven to avoid the Germans who were  on the march.
Probably hoped if they all survived that after the war they could re-unite with her.  Apparently that did not happen
At least Eva  made it to England and evidently kept her new adoptive  name.  There are no records from the  1930s or 1940s   anywhere that we can find with and Eva Dottel entering GB.

 Her parents were never heard from after that first letter.  We assume they didn't survive..  Hope this explains the situation.  Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Monday 08 February 10 11:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Gadget-

The Bennett studio is history-- I contacted the people who bought it in 1963.  Nothing was available from the studio.  The Bennett family is gone.  There are no negatives  available to search.   I also contacted several museums that do have B.Bennett's pictures  hanging in their collections.  Nothing  -----

So  the picture isn't much help --maybe  if it was posted in a London  newspaper  !!!  I wrote to the Daily Mirror  about 10 days ago , but have had no response . 

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Monday 08 February 10 10:49 GMT (UK)  »
Prue
-tried but it wouldn't send to you . It was in the jpeg size-but it said error  and listed jpeg as a correct size to send.

I did crop and enlarge it - the  emblem near the shoulder had a circle and 2 light , Or white  markings in it  , one over the other  --the name of the country or unit was not readable.

Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Monday 08 February 10 00:53 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry about that- I guess enlarging won't  be possible.

Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Sunday 07 February 10 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
I will try something else that may send it larger.  The photo was sent  to me by  the cousin of the bride--it was the only contact she ever had with the bride.  The photo was sent to my cousin's mother and she put it in her box of family snippets.  When the Aunt passed on in 1974 my cousin took her mother's box of memorabilia.    She went through it but didn't pursue any method of contacting the bride or her  family  because there was no information about them anywhere.

 They became our ghost family.
Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Sunday 07 February 10 12:35 GMT (UK)  »
Think I've got it-

I sent this as a jpeg file --I got a message that  there was an error.  The reason given was it was an etm. file That's not how I sent it.  Don't know what to do now.  The original is clearer, but don't know how else to send it.

Sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Saturday 06 February 10 22:43 GMT (UK)  »
The suggestion of posting a painting  of the bride   in cyber space might stir someone's memory.  Do you know anyone who has had success this way.

sara

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The Common Room / Re: Identify picture
« on: Thursday 04 February 10 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
The only way is to pull all of the soldiers that married an  Eva during the 1940's .   Ancestry .com has tons of Evas but the soldier may not have been Jewish , so picking a Jewish sounding name may not work.  Our guess is that her parent's gave her to a non Jewish family to assure  that she would  get to safety.  Thusly, she may not have followed the Jewish religion.  Don't know how old she was when the adoption took place.

 :D

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