Joseph Berger papers

Joseph Berger papers 

Joseph Berger was born in Lemberg (L’viv) in 1907 to Jakob and Syla Berger and worked in the lumber industry. He married Anna Lax in 1936 and had two daughters, Janina (b. 1937) and Celina (b. 1940), and his family was forced into the local ghetto following the German occupation. His wife and older daughter were killed, but his younger daughter was smuggled out and survived the Holocaust in hiding under the name Mary. Joseph escaped in 1943 with Anna Astman, whom he married in 1944. He found Celina after the war and immigrated to the United States in 1947 with her, his new wife, and their son Kesil (b. 1946). 

Joseph Berger papers