Goldfarb family papers

Goldfarb family papers 

Leopold (Leib) Goldfarb (1898-1961) and Jeanne"Jenn" Buchwald (1911-1940) were married in Antwerp, Belgium on 13 February 1933. They had one daughter, Nina, was born in Antwerp in 1935. Leopold was born in Warsaw on 31 October 1898, and was one of eight children of Mendel and Chana (née Shapiro) Goldfarb. He immigrated to Belgium in the early 1930s. Jenny was the daughter of Abraham and Jetta (née Brandt) Buchwald, whose family was from Antwerp. The Goldfarbs settled in Brussels after their wedding, where Leopold, an architectural engineer, had established a business. Following the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, the Goldfarbs fled to Paris, where Jenny's parents joined them. When Jenny became ill there, they relocated to southern France, where Jenny died in a sanatorium a few months later, on 2 September 1940. During this time, Nina had been sent to a boarding school, and in the following year, the Buchwalds managed to immigrate to Switzerland, where they survived the war, and Leopold and his daughter left France, travelling first to Madrid in August 1941, and then on to Lisbon, from which they sailed on the MS"Serpa Pint" in December 1941, reaching Kingston, Jamaica in January 1942. The lived in a refugee camp there, Camp Gibraltar, until relocating to Cuba, with the hope of being able to immigrate to the United States from there, which they succeeded in doing in 1948, settling in New York. Nina finished high school and college, and married Chester Phillips in 1954. Leopold Goldfarb died on 4 June 1961. 

Goldfarb family papers