Chana Stein-Kelsen

Chana, Sofie, Isidor, Max, Mendel Vienna 1908 Sofie with her parents Chana and Mendel, her older brother Max and her 14 years younger brother Isidor on the occasion of Isi's Bar Mitzvah, Vienna 1908. Sofie, her husband Emil and oldest son Friedrich (Fritz) fled after the "Anschluss" to Nederland in 1938 and so did her mother Chana (Anna) Stein-Kelsen. A younger son escaped to South America and survived. Sofie, Emil and Fritz were murdered in Auschwitz, Chana died in 1941 of a stroke in the Amsterdam Joodse Invalide.

Mijn vader Isidor Stein en zijn 16 jaar oudere broer Max waren Cavalry officers in het Oosterijk/Hongaarse leger tijdens de eerste wereldoorlog - hier op verlof in Weenen gefotografeerd met hun moeder Chana Stein-Kelsen