Esther Rosenfeld / Esther Starobin (F / Germany, 1937), Holocaust survivor

Esther Rosenfeld / Esther Starobin (F / Germany, 1937), Holocaust survivor

Bertl Rosenfeld / Bertha Esenstad (F / Germany, 1925), Holocaust survivor

Edith Rosenfeld / Edith Kaye (F / Germany, 1927-1998), Holocaust survivor

Ruth Rosenfeld / Ruth Ezekiel (F / Germany, 1930-2009), Holocaust survivor

Herman Rosenfeld (M / Germany, 1933-1990), Holocaust survivor

Biography

Esther Rosenfeld (later Esther Starobin, 1937- ) was born on April 3, 1937 in Adelsheim, Germany. In June 1939, at the age of two, Esther was send on a Kindertransport from Germany to London. Upon arriving in London, Esther was met by a woman from the Quaker society who escorted her from London to Thorpe, Norwich, about 100 miles away from London. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan. Harry worked in a shoe factory that was owned by a Jewish family. He had responded to a flyer on the factory bulletin board advertising a need for foster families for refugee children. Upon her arrival, Esther was quarantined because she had scarlet fever, but her foster brother Alan played with her through the window. Esther went to school and had a happy childhood with the Harrisons, despite the effects of the war. Her sisters lived in different areas of England but would visit whenever possible. Esther lived with the Harrisons until 1947 when she immigrated to the United States with her sisters. She married Fred Starobin (1925-2011) and they had two daughters, Deborah Armstrong and Judith Okenfuss.