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Becker Family Photos

Wedding of Paula Becker and Julius RouzenWedding of Paula Becker and Julius Rouzen

Paula Becker was one of 11 children (who survived their first year) of Gustav-Gershon Becker of Lubiewo and Rosa-Rachel Levy of Tuchel, who moved the family from Tuchel to Danzig after WWI. In Danzig, they had a kosher butcher shop at Kotterhagergasse #10, which they were forced to sell in 1934. This is a photo from Paula's first wedding.

Date: before 1939  Place: Danzig
Submitted by Tamar Amit
Hilde and Selma BeckerHilde and Selma Becker

Daughters of Gustav-Gershon Becker and Rosa-Rachel Levy. Printed on the reverse of the photo:
4th Aug 1937
Express Photo "Leonda" DANZIG, Holzmar[unreadable]
Amtlich zuge lassene Lichtbilder

Date: 4 Aug 1937  Place: Danzig
Submitted by Tamar Amit
Paula BeckerPaula Becker

Daughter of Gustav-Gershon Becker and Rosa-Rachel Levy, Paula probably left for Palestine soon after this was taken. En route, she was detained from 1940 to 1945 in Mauritius, where she married for a second time (to Moshe Weinsaft).

Date: July 1939  Place: Danzig
Submitted by Tamar Amit
Hilde and Siegfried BeckerHilde and Siegfried Becker

Children of Gustav-Gershon Becker and Rosa-Rachel Levy, on a shore in or near Danzig. Siegfried was killed in the Stuthoff Concentration Camp in 1940. Hilde and her brother Paul immigrated to Palestine illegally aboard the ship "Astir" in 1939.

Date: ?  Place: Danzig?
Submitted by Tamar Amit
Rosa-Rachel Levy BeckerRosa-Rachel Levy Becker

Photographed by instruction of or by the Nazis. Rosa-Rachel died in the Danzig ghetto on 6 Jun 1941.

Date: 1934 or 1935  Place: Danzig
Submitted by Tamar Amit
Hilde and Elsa BeckerHilde and Elsa Becker

Daughters of Gustav-Gershon Becker and Rosa-Rachel Levy, Hilde about six years old and Elsa about three. Elsa died of illness soon after, in 1919 in Danzig.

Date: c. 1919  Place: Danzig?
Submitted by Tamar Amit


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