Ruth Locke Collection

Ruth Locke Collection 

Vera Neumeyer, daughter of Martin Ephraim, married Hand Neumeyer in 1920 and lived in Dachau. They had two children, Ruth and Raimund. In 1938 they were forced to leave Dachau and continued to live hidden for the next few years. The children were sent on Kindertransport to England. Vera was deported from Munich in 1942, and was probably killed late in 1943 at Piaski or Majdanek camp, in Poland. Hans, meanwhile, was deported to Theresienstadt on 4th June 1942 on a transport (no. II.76) consisting of sick and disabled people. There he survived until 19th May 1944 when he died of a lung disease, probably TB exacerbated by the poor living conditions. Jewish industrialist and patron of the arts Martin Ephraim helped fund a museum in the Polish part of Görlitz/Zgorzelec. In old age, he was killed in Theresienstadt in 1944. Dr Hirschberg was a friend of Martin Ephraim, and is believed to have been deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt, and subsequently worked as a pulic prosecutor in the area. 

Ruth Locke Collection