Julius Silber

Text of the card - Dear Julius ! Show dear Irma these animals, if you know what they are called. We went to see the zoo here. Greetings, Dad - Greetings, dear mother - Julius Silber was born on February 24, 1902. His parents were August Silber, born on November 15, 1873 in Mainstockheim, and Ida Silber, née Kunreuther, born on February 13, 1876 in Straubing. She was the daughter of Moritz Moses Kunreuther from Büdingen  and his wife Jeanette, née Feuchtwanger from Fürth. August Silber ran two shops for household and kitchen appliances, glass and porcelain, gallantry and toys in Straubing and Deggendorf. Julius Silber had a younger sister - Irma, born on March 13, 1908 in Straubing. In 1934, Julius Silber married Eugenie Babette Hirschmann, born on November 4, 1907 in Augsburg, who had previously lived with her parents in Augsburg and moved to Straubing to live with Julius after the marriage. Their daughter Inga was born on March 7, 1935. Julius, Eugeneie Babette and Inga Silber emigrated to the Dominican Republic on December 13, 1938. They later lived in the USA. Ida Silber died in 1929 at the age of 52/53. August Silber also managed to emigrate. He died in 1940 at the age of 66/67 in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Irma Silber, married name Brasch, was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 28, 1944 at the age of 35. Her husband Walter and their children Jean-Pierre and Ilse Erika Brasch were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 3, 1943 and murdered there on their arrival on February 5, 1943.