This letter to Eilleen Chepenik from Martha Bauer refers to the photos of her aunt and uncle, Mathilde and Adolf Mondschein, and the parents of her husband Felix, Risa and Rudolf Bauer, that were donated to the collection. In it she also mentions the death of Risa and Rudolf Bauer in Auschitwz, and the unknown fate of her aunt and uncle who "were like parents to me." She also mentions that her sister, Claire, was still alive and living in Atlanta.
This letter to Eilleen Chepenik from Martha Bauer refers to the photos of her aunt and uncle, Mathilde and Adolf Mondschein, and the parents of her husband Felix, Risa and Rudolf Bauer, that were donated to the collection. In it she also mentions the death of Risa and Rudolf Bauer in Auschitwz, and the unknown fate of her aunt and uncle who "were like parents to me." She also mentions that her sister, Claire, was still alive and living in Atlanta.
Sisters Anne and Julie Oxler spent most of their formative years in the 1930s and 1940s in Charleston, South Carolina, where their immigrant father, William, ran the New York Shoe Repair, and the family attended Beth Israel. Eva Levy of Columbia, South Carolina, married their brother, Herbert, who was the credit manager at Altman’s Furniture Store in Charleston for three decades. Wendy Twing, Anne’s daughter, compares her upbringing with that of her mother and aunts.
