Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection 

Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) was born in Berlin in 1926 to the Jewish couple Wilhelm and Ruth Rosendorff. She emigrated on a Kindertransport to England in May 1939. Ilse lived with the Quakers until she was 14 years old when she started working. She got married to Ossia Coppard (died 1979) in 1945. The couple changed their name from Kopelmanas to Coppard in 1957 when they were naturalised.

Ossia Coppard originally came from Kaunus, Lithuania. His mother, Adele Kopelmanas, was taken to Riga ghetto where she perished in 1944. The fate of his father Vladimir is unknown.

Vera Coppard-Leibovic remarried in 2005.

 

Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection