These pages document the histories of hidden Jewish children Manfred Wildmann and Sylvia Birnbaum Wildmann and their families in Germany, France, and Belgium during World War II. Sylvia translated the wartime letters exchanged by Manfred’s family members as they attempted to survive in France. Later, she published her own memoirs about her childhood in Germany, escape to Belgium, and life as a hidden child.

Gurs Memorial Exhibition

Dr.Bernd Hainmüller and others of Blaues Haus opened a standing exhibition on Gurs in the Jewish Memorial in Breisach, Germany. The exhibition, called Blaues Haus, has 30 posters overall, which the Haus of the Wannsee-Konference in Berlin and those from Blaues Haus produced for all Holocaust memorials in Germany. One of the posters is about the fate of Manfred and shows him and his family before deportation. The exhibition poster stands in the garden of the Blaues Haus.

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