Bela Rosenthal / Joanna Millan (F / Germany, 1942), Holocaust survivor
Bela Rosenthal / Joanna Millan (F / Germany, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Germany> <Theresienstadt> / <Liberation of Theresienstadt> -- <England> <Windermere Children>
Biography
Bela Rosenthal was born August 17, 1942 in Berlin, Germany. Father died in Auschwitz. In June 1943 Bela and her mother were sent to Theresienstadt. Mother died on illness in 1944, but Bela survived until liberation in May 1945. She was immediately sent to an orphanage in Prague. In August 1945 she joined the Windermere Children on their journey to England, where she was eventually adopted by a childless Jewish couple from London, married and became known as Joanna Millan.
Sources
- USHMM Database (Bela Rosenthal, 1942) -- YES
- 45aid.org (Bella Rosenthal, 1942) -- YES
'45 Aid Society
I was born in Berlin on August 1942 and was deported to Theresienstadt in June 1943 where I remained until liberation on 3rd May 1945. My mother died there of TB in 1944. My father had already been deported to Auschwitz. I arrived in England as one of the girls on 15th August 1945 with ‘The Boys’. After spending time at Bulldogs Bank and Weir Courtney I was adopted by a London based Jewish couple. I married a Jewish man and began a new life.
Missing Identity
- Surname: ROSENTHAL
- Name: BELA
- Birth Date: August 17th 1942
- Birth Place: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Father: Siegfried Rosenthal born April 2nd 1896 Meseritz (now Mezhirichi, Ukraine). Murdered in Auschwitz March 4th 1943
- Mother’s Name: Else Rosenthal nee Schallmach born Dec 24th 1902 in Posen (now Poznan, Poland). Murdered in Theresienstadt on May 31st 1944
My mother and father met in Berlin in 1941 and got married there on November 13th 1941. I was born on August 17th 1942 in Berlin. But our family life did not go on for long. My father was deported to Auschwitz were he was murdered in March 1943 and my mother and I were sent to Theresienstadt where my mother died in May 1944. I, thanks to unknown heroes, survived and was brought to England after the war and later adopted.