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The following day 1st September, the nine Carlebach
children would visit my family on board the “Arandora Star”, a visit which Desmond
entitled “The happiest event of their lives”. The Children were laughing and enjoying the ships
entertainment. Some of the children
are pictured participating in amusement events on board the ship. They are just ordinary happy children
enjoying a summers day out with some foreign visitors on their luxury
cruise ship. One can not sense the
horror that will befall these children within a matter of months and
years.
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It was whilst looking at these
particular photographs of the Carlebach family that I knew I had to try to
trace any of the children, or failing this to establish what happened to
them during the years that would follow.
My research, via the internet led me to many stories of the Jews of
Hamburg, including a “History of the Jews of Hamburg”. It was here that I learnt that Rabbi
Joseph Carlebach, his wife and four of their children were deported in 1941
to Riga, where Rabbi Carlebach, Lotte Carlebach and the three youngest
children, Ruth-Rosa, Noemi and Sara-Stella would tragically be murdered by
the Nazis.
I now could not help but to think I
was in possession of pictures which could be extremely precious to any of
the surviving family, if indeed there were to be any.
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