Reinhold and Singer families papers

Reinhold and Singer families papers 

Feodora Singer (1924‐2010) was born in Mannheim to Julius Reinhold (1890‐1956) and Rosa Beer Reinhold (1888‐1931). Julius Reinhold was a baker who had purchased his bakery and apartment from his wife’s mother, Flora Beer (1856‐1941). The bakery was destroyed and part of the apartment damaged during Kristallnacht. In January 1939 Feodora Singer arrived in England on a Kindertransport, joining her sister, Ruth, who was already there, and lived at the Bunce Court boarding school in Kent. Their father and stepmother, Jeanne Dornacher Reinhold (1899‐1980), immigrated to the United States in April 1939, and the girls followed in November 1939. Flora Beer was killed in an old age home in Mannheim on the day the remaining Jewish population of Mannheim was deported to Gurs. Feodora’s husband, Robert Singer (1921‐2005), was born in Vienna to film distributor Josef Singer (1885‐1947) and Adele Grünberger Singer (1894‐1977). In 1938, his family left Austria for Belgium and stayed in Brussels until he and his father were encouraged to move to the Merksplas internment camp. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and lived with his maternal aunt and uncle Yurman before being drafted into the Army in 1942. He served with the 277th Field Artillery Battalion and fought in France and Belgium in 1944‐1945, including in the Battle of the Bulge. While in Europe, he was reunited with his parents who had fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium. His mother had lived under a false identity using a passport given her by the Langer family, his father had been incarcerated at Saint Cyprien, and both had found their way to safety on the Babut vineyard in Montpellier. He brought them to the United States in 1947. 

Reinhold and Singer families papers