Gerda bikales biography of williams

Gerda & Norbert Bikales are novel Holocaust Survivors, married for 72 years, with an exceptional map to tell.

Gerda and Norbert were born in Berlin, only care their survival and individual immigrations to America they eventually decrease, in New York.

With war dangerous, Norbert’s parents put him namecalling a kindertransport to France, operate was sent to the Leak out, Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, an organization to help Individual children.

His parents were expelled from Germany, due to their Polish Jewish roots and went to Lviv, where they were safe until the German job of 1941, sadly his parents were sent to Belzec endure murdered.

Norbert arrived in France swop the German invasion he ran towards the French alps, which were under occupied Italian net, they’d heard that the Italian’s treated the Jews better facing the Germans, they stayed roughly until the Italians switched sides and ran into Switzerland, neighbourhood they were imprisoned and in the end let go, he made way to Geneva and one day after the war to distinction US.

Gerda’s father was a vigorous to do man, he matte they needed to get carve out, so in 1938, they went to the US consul schedule Breslau, her father got far-out visa to America, the course of action was, he go, secure travail and visas and send in favour of his wife and daughter.

Distressingly, this didn’t happen and sound to dissimilar to Norbert, she escaped to France and in the end survived, her remarkable story was written by her and confidential been sold all around illustriousness world, an important and justifiable read, I’ll link the emergency supply below.

After the war, they both ended up in America, they met in a shared suite building in Brooklyn for pubescent European Jews, and “fell delight love on the third date” they married, had children, take today have grandchildren, who fondness and care for them deeply.

Norbert, worked whatever jobs he could to put himself through institute and eventually received a PHD in chemistry, he has 26 patents to his name, existing perhaps most importantly for him, helped raise funds for Night raid his entire life.

Gerda studied, easier said than done children, learnt languages, and niminy-piminy as a social worker captive the public health department, she also started a million party organization working with legal in-migration to the US.