Prenuptial party of Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth taken January 6, 1951 in Hamburg, Germany. Left to right: Regina Kirsbaum and Irving Kirsbaum (friends), Helga Seligman (friend and witness at wedding), Mark London (friend and witness at wedding), Erika Stockfleth and Harry Blas.
Photograph of Erika Blas' family taken in 1929 in Grevesmuehlen, Germany. Sitting: mother, Marie-Gertrude Botta,Erika (on lap). Standing, left to right: grandmother, Dorothea Stockfleth (nee Gedon),uncle, Otto Stockfleth,father, William Stockfleth.
Photograph (1931?) taken in Krappitz, So. Germany. Left to right: Erika Stockfleth, her maternal great grandmother, Edelheit (Heidi) Stockfleth on lap (sister).
Photograph taken in 1931 in Krappitz, So. Germany. Left to right: Erika Stockfleth, her maternal great grandmother, Edelheit (Heidi) Stockfleth (sister).
Circa 1910 picture of Harry Blas' grandparents, Israel and Liba Blass, taken in Lodz, Poland. Picture was sent to Harry Blas' aunt, Esther Blass, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
A short personal narrative by Harry Blas chronicling his young adulthood under German occupation in Lodz, Poland, his imprisonment in Auschwitz and eventual liberation, his search for missing family members in Europe after the war, his marriage to Erika in 1951 and their immigration to the United States in 1952.
Early 1900s (1917?) picture of Harry Blas' immediate family (Harry was not yet born) in Lodz, Poland. Left to right: Harry Blas' sister, Malka Krant (Blass),sister Freida Blass (on mother's lap),mother, Sara Blass,father, Peretz Blass,brother, Josef(?) Blass (died of pneumonia before the war). Picture sent to Harry Blas' aunt, Esther Blass in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Photograph of Erika Blas' mother, Marie-Gertrude Botta-Stockfleth. Picture taken circa 1917 in Grevesmuehlen, Germany and blown up from an identification photo.
A short personal narrative by Harry Blas chronicling his young adulthood under German occupation in Lodz, Poland, his imprisonment in Auschwitz and eventual liberation, his search for missing family members in Europe after the war, his marriage to Erika in 1951 and their immigration to the United States in 1952.
A short personal narrative by Harry Blas chronicling his young adulthood under German occupation in Lodz, Poland, his imprisonment in Auschwitz and eventual liberation, his search for missing family members in Europe after the war, his marriage to Erika in 1951 and their immigration to the United States in 1952.
A short personal narrative by Harry Blas chronicling his young adulthood under German occupation in Lodz, Poland, his imprisonment in Auschwitz and eventual liberation, his search for missing family members in Europe after the war, his marriage to Erika in 1951 and their immigration to the United States in 1952.
